It seems that everywhere else crime reporting is amplified. Certain places are known to be dangerous because of the media, but a college campus is not one of them. We are told often that hoods, parks, malls, walmart and even grade schools are dangerous. These places are known for shootings, kidnappings, robberies and accidents - yet colleges are only deemed dangerous in fictional movies and t.v. shows portraying party life. I know there is more happening than is being said. Campus is a dangerous place, at least just as dangerous as walmart, and I just don't see why they would want to hide that. I think we should know what dangers pose us. I mean, it's not like this stuff doesn't leak out, but it's not perpetuated the way crime is elsewhere.I don't know if that's good or bad (perhaps crime occurs less when it is less announced), but I feel like if they could hide something, they would. And not many details are ever given.
When I was in high school, if someone died it was a big deal (no matter what the cause), but when a professor died on my campus nothing was said. I went to my classes and it was absolutely no news. It's like you have to know people to know when these things happen. It's like... your parents not telling you your fish died or something... just makes me feel weird, that's all.
When I was in high school, if someone died it was a big deal (no matter what the cause), but when a professor died on my campus nothing was said. I went to my classes and it was absolutely no news. It's like you have to know people to know when these things happen. It's like... your parents not telling you your fish died or something... just makes me feel weird, that's all.
One major problem is that the school officials don't want it getting "out" because it would mean students and their parents would feel less secure about the saftey of themselves or their children, respectively. Another is that at a majority of schools, campus crime is handled by the on-campus security, which can be somewhat of a joke depending on the college in question's idea of punishment.
It's a hard problem to solve because on one hand, you want your students to feel safe, yet on the other you want crime dealt with appropriately. Very few schools seem to have this balanced out properly and it's a sad state to be in.
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Tens of thousands of young adults living away from home for the first time in an unfamiliar city are prey to predators and pilferers.
As I said, it must be a sad, sad place, where such measures are needed. They certainly aren't needed here.
Never been mugged and never saw a mugger. I don't even know anyone who got mugged.
I do live in an area known for trouble, though. I see the police helicopter daily and hear police sirens maybe fifteen to twenty times a day.
I also had someone try and steal my bike... I started chatting with him and asked him what was wrong.
It took him a while to realise and ask me: "Is this your bike?"
To which I replied: "Yeah."
He ran off.
Still no mugging. And nothing in Germany ^^
I have not heard of anything criminal happen in or around the university from my fellow students. The worst accident to date, involving students was an accident. Where they tried to burn lab coats, according to tradition, and ****ed it up, burning themselves instead.
In general, the presence of security both private and police is very low in Germany, you will very rarely even see police (at least where I live) and when you do they are usually on traffic patrol, handing out parking fines or otherwise in their vehicles and driving around. (I can't actually remember when I last saw a pedestrian officer in the city, who wasn't solely intend on giving away tickets.)
There is no mall security physically present either, they are probably watching over video feed though.
I also meant to write "worst incident" not "worst accident", I guess I failed at doing that, eh?
It's not a jibe; it just amused me.
The year before last, one of my flatmates had his iPhone stolen while he went to have a bath. He called the police, but they tried to blame him for not taking care of his things.