<p><a href="http://www.stalcommpol.org/data.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.stalcommpol.org/data.html</a></p>
<p>Harvard, beat out everyone--- for having the most crimes per capita =P.</p>
<p>& it seems somewhat Ironic in the sense that its New York. New York is full of alot of drama and things that Happen so one would think Columbia would be the most dangerous.</p>
<p>I geuss more drama && excitement=more security and cops lurking around</p>
<p>Time square is a perfect example</p>
<p>This data is five years old.</p>
<p>Well, is the current situation the same at Columbia then in terms of safety?</p>
<p>probably better. they've flooded south harlem and morningside heights with police presence, and Morningside Alliance is an independently-funded supplementary police force that drives around and patrols. I remember reading in 2005 that the columbia neighborhood was the 2nd-safest neighborhood in the 5 boroughs, after the upper east side.</p>
<p>hang around long enough and it's easy to see why. there are always people, everywhere, any time of night. robbers want privacy, they want secrecy, they want an environment they can control. one lesson you'll learn quick in new york: if there are people around, no matter what kind of people, you're safe. it's when nobody's around that you've got to worry. and in the columbia neighborhood, during the school year, there are ALWAYS people around.</p>
<p>in my 4 years there, there was exactly one knifepoint robbery, and I know this because it made front page news in the Spec. It was 5 in the morning and the person was walking along an otherwise empty stretch of Amsterdam, alone. If you think that sounds like you, then the hypothetical you is pretty dumb. Most people would be smarter than that - and are. And that's the level of stupidity you have to subject yourself too (quite often, i might add) in order for any trouble to find you.</p>
<p>I'm surprised about Cambridge though. I was working in cambridge at the time that study was done, and it sure didn't feel less safe. north cambridge, Inman square and such, yeah, maybe, but harvard is like a mini greenwich village.</p>
<p>This list doesn't include over half the Ivies...</p>
<p>here we go, look at the graph mid page:</p>
<p>that link is bad.</p>
<p>here's</a> a good one.</p>
<p>PosterX is that you?</p>
<p>and the carnage begins. You've criticized Brown and Columbia (though indirectly) so far. Until I see you critcizing Yale, I'm going to call you poster X. ;)</p>
<p>
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Crisis at Columbia: That Awful Mess on Morningside Heights
<a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1943%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D">http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1943
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</a>
A clearly slanted political screed about how bad the MEALAC dept is, and how it's affecting everyone's academic freedom and blah blah blah. Nothing to do with safety. Nothing that ever pretends to be objective.</p>
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Tied-up Columbia student left to die used fire set by creep to free herself
<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crim...ill_her-2.html%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crim...ill_her-2.html
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</a>
Graduate student who lived up in the 140s by broadway. That's probably the toughest neighborhood in manhattan. I live in harlem, but you couldn't pay me enough to live there. Undergrads wouldn't live there unless they had a death wish, because they get on-campus housing.</p>
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[quote]
IN slaying of a columbia student
<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag%5B/url%5D">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag</a>... 1C0A9669C8B63
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That's from the year 2000. That's the "Ruggles slaying" where a nutjob guy killed his girlfriend and then himself. Hardly indicative of dangerous streets.</p>
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Columbia Student Slain, and Suspect Kills Himself
<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...gewanted=print%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...gewanted=print
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</a>
Same incident as above. Thanks for finding 2 articles on a murder in the year 2000.</p>
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Student Caught in Lie Is Killed by Amtrak Train
<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag%5B/url%5D">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag</a>... 7C0A9669C8B63
[/quote]
A guy suspended from Columbia for lying, in the year 2000, is walking on railroad tracks in New Jersey, and is killed by a train. This affects the safety of Columbia how?</p>
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Second Killing in a Year Renews Fears on Campus
<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag%5B/url%5D">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag</a>... 1C0A9679C8B63
[/quote]
This article, from 2001, is about Gallaudet University. It hit your blanket query search because it was in the "District of Columbia". Jesus, do you even read the articles you're blindly using to try and attack our school?</p>
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Columbia Employee Shot and Killed
<a href="http://media.www.columbiaspectator.c...-2899418.shtml%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D">http://media.www.columbiaspectator.c...-2899418.shtml
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</a>
Wandered into a restaurant on 125th st. Not a student. Slightly scary but still not a crime on campus. 125th st is usually perfectly safe, this sounds like an aberration.</p>
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Ghastly Killing Claims the Life of a 2-year-old in a Morningside Heights project
<a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/1992%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D">http://www.nysun.com/article/1992
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</a>
mother beats her 2-year-old son to death in a housing project that happens to be within 10 blocks of columbia. yeah, this makes me feel less safe <em>rolls eyes</em></p>
<p>seriously, not ONE of these articles concerns anything that would lead anyone to believe that the Columbia campus is anything other than safe. The only thing that even happened on campus in that list happened in 2000 - and is still talked about, because of how remarkable and unusual it is.</p>
<p>What a waste of my 10 minutes. I want my 10 minutes back.</p>
<p>LMAO that response was beautiful</p>
<p>It's not surprising at all that Columbia would be so safe...it is in one of the safest big cities in America (thanks Rudy xoxoxo).</p>
<p>Furthermore the campus itself is 36 acres, most of which are walled-off and thus very easy to monitor.</p>
<p>Ummm does Poster[X] know the definition of "Projects?"</p>
<p>this safety issue is a thing of the past, not applicable anymore, hasn't been for several years. sensationalizing isolated incidents are people's favorite thing to do when they want to discredit a university. poster's articles try to do this, he too doesn't seem to be concerned with their accuracy or relevance: something that happened in 2000, district of columbia nonsense, denzera does a good job. don't take my word for it, walk around columbia, judge for yourself.</p>
<p>nobody is happier about JohnnyK's transition from "anti-Columbia troll" to "occasionally drops amusing comments" than I am.</p>
<p>I don't think PosterX knows the definition of Columbia.</p>
<p>I've lived as a student at Columbia for three years of my life. Its definitely safe, but if you think its as safe as hanover, princeton, or ithaca you are kidding yourself.</p>
<p>columbia's as safe as you'll get for an urban school. i have never felt unsafe on campus. just use some common sense--a few blocks one way or another off campus at night alone might be stupid.</p>