Campus crime stats at your fingertips
August 6, 2008 | 10:58
am
Sending your kid off to school and need something else to worry about? How about campus crime?
UCrime.com provides recent crime information on 101 colleges and universities nationwide. The maps I tested of the University of Colorado at Boulder and USC were slow to load on my computer but told me what I suspected. Students on the Colorado campus have a lot less crime to deal with than those here in L.A. The icons for different types of crime pretty well covered the map of USC.
I passed on the option to sign up for alerts on recently reported crimes. Enough already. Perhaps this is a better tool for parents whose children are still weighing what college to attend.
-- Lauren Beale, Real Estate editor
Photo credit: Los Angeles Times
...and this has what to do with real estate? Gee, I hope this is not where the blog is headed with all the new "contributors".
Posted by: JK | August 06, 2008 at 11:04 AM
Boulder CO is a nicer place than LA.
So?
Will it make many people leave LA to Boulder?
It is not that easy, so many parts in the puzzle, family, job, friends, climate, crime, etc.
Posted by: Laker | August 06, 2008 at 04:34 PM
To summarize you are insane to send your kid to USC for a total tuition bill of $200K
Posted by: Steve | August 06, 2008 at 09:00 PM
Interesting how the best and the brightest continue to apply in record numbers to schools like Penn, Columbia, UChicago and other urban institutions with similar, if not worse, crime statistics than USC. Maybe these kids see themselves as part of the solution and want to see and learn about the real world with all its challenges. In fact, a major part of USC's approach is integration of community participation into the academic experience.
Posted by: Fred | August 07, 2008 at 05:36 PM
As a USC grad, I am proud of SC's commitment and involvement in the local community. Some of the most rewarding parts of my education involved working on projects that benefited the local residents. Besides, these statistics paint a much more dire picture than reality. In the 4 + years I lived there, I never once had a problem.
Posted by: AK | August 07, 2008 at 08:07 PM
It's kind of a fun internet tool for dataheads, but also kind of arbitrary for having its own thread on this blog.
Posted by: Ragnar | August 08, 2008 at 09:20 AM