West Campus UT crime

[Smily]

More reason Campus carry NEEDS to pass! Campus "may" be safer but as soon as you step off you are on your own!!

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/stu ... 29312.html

"Residents in area had one in two chance of being victim, according to research."

-Smily

[Smily]

Another article

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/content ... rise-theft

"The mutilation and murder of UT student Jennifer Cave by fellow student Colton Pitonyak in August 2005 happened only blocks from the Drag, within an apartment complex housing students. The shooting of student William Ehrhardt III by Jason Anthony Chacon happened just a few months later on Halloween night after a robbery turned violent.

Most recently, students John Goosey and Stacy Barnett were both shot and killed by James Richard Thompson in Barnett’s West Campus condo in July 2009.

Aggravated assaults in the area decreased from 16 in 2005 to four in 2007 but have since climbed back up to 19 in 2009."


"He said APD can only do so much and that the rest falls upon students’ awareness and street improvements."

[Thomas]

Interesting, but I'm not sure if I trust that reporter or study to accurately deliver the facts:

According to the study, a neighborhood in Isla Vista, Calif., ranked first, where people had a one in one chance of becoming a victim during a one-year period.

If that was true, then why not say "where everybody is a victim in each one-year period" which I highly doubt is true.

[Fangs]

Interesting, but I'm not sure if I trust that reporter or study to accurately deliver the facts:

According to the study, a neighborhood in Isla Vista, Calif., ranked first, where people had a one in one chance of becoming a victim during a one-year period.

If that was true, then why not say "where everybody is a victim in each one-year period" which I highly doubt is true.

I would move.

[Razgriz]

Interesting, but I'm not sure if I trust that reporter or study to accurately deliver the facts:

According to the study, a neighborhood in Isla Vista, Calif., ranked first, where people had a one in one chance of becoming a victim during a one-year period.

If that was true, then why not say "where everybody is a victim in each one-year period" which I highly doubt is true.

Because some people may get robbed more than once a year, and others may not be robbed at all. They're saying that the property crime equals the population.

[woodsong]

My general rule-of-thumb is that any news story with numbers in it has a math error.

[WildBill]

Interesting, but I'm not sure if I trust that reporter or study to accurately deliver the facts:

According to the study, a neighborhood in Isla Vista, Calif., ranked first, where people had a one in one chance of becoming a victim during a one-year period.

If that was true, then why not say "where everybody is a victim in each one-year period" which I highly doubt is true.

Because some people may get robbed more than once a year, and others may not be robbed at all. They're saying that the property crime equals the population.

My general rule-of-thumb is that any news story with numbers in it has a math error.

Not only math errors, but factual errors as well. This story is very misleading. First of all Isla Vista is not even a city. It is an "unincorporated community" that so small that it could be described as one big neighborhood. It is situated adjacent to the University of California Santa Barbara campus.

When it was first developed, Isla Vista was almost 100% students. Since they had a virtual monopoly on student housing close to campus, absentee landlords made millions upon millions of dollars renting apartments to UCSB students. Most of the property owners never spent money on maintenance or renovation of their properties, over the years the area has turned into a ghetto.