<p>I really hate to raise this, but has anyone else been reading the Review the past few weeks and beginning to become concerned?</p>
<p>I read the one a few weeks ago with the article about the assault/robbery near, I think it was, North Campus. I guess I should check out the latest. This is concerning.</p>
<p>I’m concerned. I had heard (and I don’t remember where I heard it, so take it with a grain of salt) that there was a concerted effort by some non-students to target students for theft because they are often inebriated or in possession of valuable items.</p>
<p>Did you mean " safety" ?</p>
<p>^^Yes, but I changed the spelling to throw off any cyber muggers who might try to google and find the thread so they could hijack it.</p>
<p>Guess it didn’t work that well.</p>
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<p>Hi. I signed up last year to get the “crime alerts” from UD. It seems like most of the Newark issues are not on campus. Anything close to campus is during more “at risk” times of the day (night). Students should never walk alone at night, as far as I’m concerned, and DD is well-aware. They watch each other’s back so they are not walking home alone from a party or the library. Just have to be smart.</p>
<p>I think I receive fewer crime alerts this year than I did last year.</p>
<p>Two of the three of the current incidents reported in the Daily were on Ray Street, very close to and seem clearly to be students who were coming from or to one of the dorms in the Christiana Complex; a third on the 400 blk of South College Ave.</p>
<p>I have noticed since I have subscribed to the crime alerts UDaily for more than a year now. I normally do not pay as much attention to the theft and minor instances but the violent and handgun ones make me sit up and take notice.
That one that happened on New London Rd. (2 men assaulted 2 guys & grabbed laptops from backpacks) is on a dark stretch of the road. I can see how it would be opportune. D has been warned when I see stuff near her dorm. She said she does ride the bus when it’s later at night.</p>
<p>First of all, a parent of a college student signing up for campus crime alerts seems like a form of self torture. I’m just sayin’…</p>
<p>Having said that, let me tell you a true story. After my wife and I moved our freshman daughter in to the dorm back in September, the two of us decided to go to Main Street and have dinner and hope for/dread a call to have us come back to get her and take her home. No call came by the way, nor have many since. Anyway, we had dinner at the Winehouse Restuarant at one of their outside tables. It was all very nice and while we were eating some guy rode up on bicycle and locked it to the little fence surrounding the outside tables a few feet from where we were sitting. Meanwhile, the sidewalks were beginning to fill up with students happy to be back, greeting each other warmly etc. …to be continued…</p>
<p>It was a very nice energy and great to see considering our states of mind. We barely noticed the bike guy when he placed the bike there, but when he returned a few minutes later, he looked at some students nearby and then at my wife, and said, “I hate them.” She just smiled awkwardly and said offhandedly, “well they’re back…” At that point he said, “yes, and I am going to use them for target practice.” and pantomimed aiming a rifle and taking a few shots. We were both kind of stunned and he rode away on his bike. To make a long story a bit shorter, after debating it with my wife who suggest that I just let it go, I called the Newark police the next day and reported the incident. I haven’t heard anything back from them, but I do think they took it seriously. How about that…</p>