Common sense safety solutions
Despite the variety at Yale, students share at least one common experience: the contents of their inboxes. A semester’s worth invariably contains propaganda to join the several hundred campus groups “signed up” for at a frenetic bazaar many months ago, proclamations of dance parties at T0ADS!, demands from Jill Carlton, Registrar, to submit web evaluations — and about 10 messages from the enigmatic Yale Police Department Chief James A. Perrotti.
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By Grown up (Unregistered User)
10:55am on February 7, 2008
Part of the problem Yale faces with crime and students is that students have come to expect that Yale will protect them against all consequences of irresponsible behavior. Walking around an urban environment alone at 3am on a weekday is just asking for trouble, no matter who you are (and even if you are sober...). Nothing short of turning New Haven into an armed camp will prevent crime against students who think they are immune to it.
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Common sense solutions would mean deploying more traffic officers and encouraging students never to drive, since those things are 100 more likely to cause an injury to students than crime. Penn, Harvard and Columbia have far more crime against students than Yale, but even at those schools, a lot more students have died or been injured getting hit by a speeder near their dorm than in any random crimes.