<p>well, yes, Temple is in a worse neighborhood than UMD. It’s also in a worse neighborhood than Harvard, but that means neither that UMD is in a poor neighborhood nor that there is anything inherently dangerous about any of these schools. What danger comes on campus arrives with a fellow student known to the victim. It is off campus that the danger increases but not because of the neighborhood but because of the student. Danger comes in many forms, but most of the danger you have to be concerned about is the same at all three schools: students walking around off campus with their heads down, earbuds in, music turned up loud, eyes fixed on one kind of screen or another. Or intoxicated. That is to say, the student with a large target on their front and back. That student would be a target anywhere you find a college. As I’ve said before, my son spent four years at UMDCP without incident, living off campus two of those years in the residential rental homes that surround the campus and walking thru College Park day and night. My mother-in-law spent six years after her retirement commuting every day for a bachelors at Temple. Without incident. You have to know how to and be willing to move through a city without a target on two sides of your body. Wherever you go to college. Teach your children about predation and how to avoid it; it’s your responsibility.</p>