elanya

Well... They referred to this as a 'crime of opportunity' - the suspects were already armed, they saw a chance to make some quick cash, and they took it.

People having their houses broken into by armed people in Greenville is *not* uncommon.

People being mugged by armed men is Greenville is also not uncommon. It isn't common for people to get shot - in this case I suspect that alcohol was probably a factor :p

And I am accustomed at this point to the idea of campus police (though it was a new one on my at ECU), what really gets me, in regards to this being 'allowed' to hapen, is that they have yet to implement any *effective* strategy to reduce the over all crime rate both in the city, and in neighborhoods that are that close to campus. I knew people who lived in the area. Literally, once you got off the eastern end campus (and even in that end of campus), it really wasn't safe to go out at night.

It's clearly still a problem, and I guess we'll have to see whether they are able to do anything to reduce the crime at this point, or if it will keep getting worse.