Dorm Break-Ins

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<p>How often (if at all) do people's dorm rooms get broken into during the school year in a situation where the dorm was locked up properly and everything? I ask because I'm going to stay in rawlings on the first floor, and honestly, the windows look pretty easy to break, lol.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.police.ufl.edu/pdf_files/2006/UFPD%20Safe%20Campus-9.pdf[/url]”>http://www.police.ufl.edu/pdf_files/2006/UFPD%20Safe%20Campus-9.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>dunno if housing has its own numbers, and a number of burglaries are likely not related to dorms. even more, i imagine most of them are not random at all, and may be the result of not locking doors.</p>

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<p>UF is a safe campus. Even still not a bad idea to lock up your dorms.</p>

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<p>last week there was an armed robbery on campus, twice</p>

<p>one guy got kicked in his face.</p>

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<p>How did you hear about the guy getting kicked in the face? That’s nuts.</p>

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<p>the independent alligator, read all about it.</p>

<p>was in the paper last week, it happened at corry village(west of frat row) and also some guy walking ONCAMPUS…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.alligator.org/articles/2009/07/14/news/local/090714_theft.txt[/url]”>http://www.alligator.org/articles/2009/07/14/news/local/090714_theft.txt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>of course the guy called and canceled his cards before calling police</p>

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<p>I am not an expert - but I did talk with the police department and housing administrators and have older siblings at UF; and I am of the impression that the residence halls are essentially crime free.</p>

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<p>Pretty much. Things happen here and there, but for the most part its safe. I would leave my door open when I went to take a shower, or went to the kitchen/lounge.</p>

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<p>I live in Hume, you need to use a swipe card two times to get into the hall and your floor, which only works for your own floor. Doors lock automatically and there is also a deadbolt in the door, so break-ins are virtually impossible here…unless you leave your dorm room open and unattended. Don’t think most of the older dorms have this feature, though.</p>

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<p>if you live in the apartments oncampus like i do, there is no such feature you only need a key…well really you dont even need that, i always come home to find my door unlocked.</p>

<p>(we have 4 people in here, someone is ALWAYS bound to forget to lock, basically forget security)
but we all have rooms with locks, which is somewhat a pain…happens often that we have to call an RA because we are locked out of our room.)</p>

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but we all have rooms with locks, which is somewhat a pain…happens often that we have to call an RA because we are locked out of our room.)

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<p>Have you checked the side. Usually those doors have a switch where you can choose for it to always be locked or always open (unless locked with a key).</p>