September 7th, 2009
9:25 pm
To Lee: I attend the University of Arizona and I live in a white neighborhood. However I feel less safe here than I do in New York City where I’m from. And a look at the crime statistics prove me right. People here like to blame the illegals or any other minority but the truth of the matter is a large portion who commit these crimes are white. If I grew up here, maybe I would have a biased view like you do, but at least I can look at it from a higher standpoint: Drugs and poverty. Tucson is not a rich city and the meth addicts tend to be white and male. And they commit tons of crime! But it’s never on the news.

College campuses tend to attract crime, from outside and inside. At the college I went to previously there were white students selling drugs. It was in a white town and the majority of crimes (thefts, robberies etc) were committed by whites. So it’s not just those in a “predominantly black” area.
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Thank you Ann for such honest and unbiased commentary. I have a daughter who attends Spelman college and I chose Spelman because of the security aspects of its campus. Surely I realize that the campus is not a vaccum and there are time when she will need to leave the comfort of it’s gated community. It scares me to know that she was within such close distance to where this incident happened. But, I realize that this could have happened anywhere in America and on any college campus. Unfortunately this beautiful young lady had to loose her life as a result; fortunately there weren’t any other lives lost that night. Perhaps BravesFan79 is unaware of, or care not to acknowledge the multiple deaths that occur on non-historical black colleges that we read about so often. If one were to look back on all of the murders that have occurred on college campuses over the past 5 years, they would find that only a fraction of those murders involved Black victims or that the perputrator was Black…just facts…

College campuses tend to attract crime, from outside and inside. At the college I went to previously there were white students selling drugs. It was in a white town and the majority of crimes (thefts, robberies etc) were committed by whites. So it’s not just those in a “predominantly black” area.

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/gsu-student-robbed-at-132999.html

How many times have we read about Ga Tech, GSU, and other college students getting robbed and/or assaulted in the past few months. A bunch.

How many West GA College, GA Southern, or hell, even UGA students have you read about in that same time?

Let’s face it, Atlanta, like most other urban areas with a predominately black population is a breeding ground for crime.

And those of you who are trying to allude to this being a “Southern” phenomia, might I point out Detroit, Chicago, Cincinatti, Philadelphia, ad infinteum [sic].

Meanwhile, Chicago has announced a plan to attempt to stop some of the violence on its streets. They’ve developed a profile of students most likely to get shot – I’m not sure if this is also a profile of those most likely to do the shooting, but such a profile would undoubtably be interesting and would quite possibly be helpful in combatting such violence in other urban areas.

Ditto previous posters on the fact that 12:30 a.m. isn’t late at all for a college student on a weekend night. On my own college campus in a very small town in the Midwest, the last shuttle bus on the weekends ran at 2:30 a.m., and there were still plenty of people who missed it and had to call security or a cab to get them back to their dorms. They’re not asking for trouble if they’re out that late on campus; they’re just following the social norm and would, at most schools, have plenty of other kids out and about with them.

My prayers are with this young woman’s family and the Spelman community.