<p>YouTube</a> - Binghamton: NY State's Sex Offender Capital</p>
<p>I suppose if I lived in Broome County it might bother me…probably even more so three years ago when this was originally broadcast.</p>
<p>Man how far is the college from the broome county?</p>
<p>I’ve been going to BU for 4 years now and I have never heard of problem like this on campus. I feel extremely safe on the BU campus. Our campus has a larger police force than the entire town of Vestal and we also have a blue light system so if you don’t feel safe walking around campus you can pick up one of the phones and someone (either an officer or a student hired by them) will come to escort you to your destination. As for downtown Binghamton, if you decide to go downtown, just don’t go alone and keep your eyes open.</p>
<p>I believe the college is in Broome County, but you take your chances wherever you may go. Had the report said all those sex offenders resided at Binghamton University, there may be a concern. The report is three years old and I believe the university is technically in Vestal, New York. I would need a more up to date report to decide how much this bothers me. Have you applied to Binghamton?</p>
<p>SUNY is in Broome County. I have lived here all my life. There is a half way house located in downtown Binghamton across from the main post office that many sex offenders are paroled to. However, most of these folks are pedophiles, so a college student doesn’t really have to worry about them. However, that said, downtown Binghamton has really gone down hill the last decade or so. I would not feel comfortable having my daughter wandering around there at night going to bars. There is an increasing amount of crime, robberies, rapes , drugs, violence. The SUNY campus is located in the suburb of Vestal. Typical suburban area. However, the students often go downtown to the bars on State Street.</p>
<p>Sex offenders is a broad expression that often covers, for example, an 18 year old and a 17 year old consenting couple. The parent of the younger one becomes aware of the situation and has the older one arrested. This clearly is not a violent crime, but the permanent label of sex offender follows the convicted person. I don’t know what percentage this example represents in the data, but know it’s in there.</p>
<p>I think the “news” report was an inflamatory piece of garbage that served no purpose other than to raise eybrows.</p>
<p>Unfortunately though, there are sex offenders out there and everyone needs to be aware and protect themselves accordingly…in any community.</p>
<p>^ I did not mind attending Binghamton, but the fact that the database for the prediction of the number and percentage of sex offenders existence in a SUNY community really stuns me. If the news officials believed them to be less significant, why the heck would they put it in public where not just Binghamton, but the whole metropolitan people in the state realize it? I’ll sell you an addendum for free: there was one gay guy who once followed a boy walking from the gas station and then ended up being registered as a sex offender. I don’t blame the Bing girls to be a greater legitimate concern for this, but I’m affected as well.</p>
<p>I’m a first year student and I had no idea, and really don’t care.</p>
<p>Campus is very safe, and I’ve never felt threatened downtown.</p>
<p>I recently graduated Binghamton, and while the thought of this is a little unsettling, you will really have absolutely zero contact with these people as a student. I didn’t watch the video, but I know that most of the sex offenders are concentrated in the area because there is some kind of a rehabilitation program, and they live in group houses together. They are not on campus whatsoever, and even downtown, it is more than safe. Would I want to live next door to them? No. But living in the same city is perfectly fine.</p>
<p>I know the statistics sound very disturbing, but the reason I am being so nonchalant about this is that in all of my time at Binghamton I don’t know one person who ever had an encounter with one of these people (and I lived downtown for 2 of those years.)</p>