<p>my rents are kinda overprotective, so of course they know about the annual crime rate that colleges are supposed to release every year. We went online and the latest report we found was from 2005, and now their kinda freakin out b/c they think that if they didnt post the report, then the school has something to hide. So does anyone know where i can find pomona's annual crime rate report?</p>
<p>I don't know the data, but someone will probably post. If your parents check out the location they will discover that it is in an upscale suburban location. Except for colleges located in remote locations, Pomona is about as safe as you can get.</p>
<p>Hi smiley. We visited 2 years ago, and it is in an incredibly safe upscale suburban area. I am sure the crime rate is very low.</p>
<p>Claremont</a> Profile | Claremont CA</p>
<p>Claremont's property crime levels tend to be about the same as California's average level. The same data shows violent crime levels in Claremont tend to be much lower than California's average level.</p>
<p>When we dropped my daughter off, I grabbed her and talked to a security officer. He said most of the crime is theft. He told her to always lock her door and never leave her laptop out visible to someone walking down the hall. Apparently local bad guys in the 19-22 age range (approx) will follow a student into the entrance of the dorm, and the real student will be nice and hold the door open for the baddie.</p>
<p>He gave her the usual don't do anything stupid talk and told her to buddy up at night - street smart anywhere you are. However, my impression definitely was that theft is the biggest of the issues. I dimly remember something about bikes being stolen but since she doesn't have a bike I didn't listen too well.</p>
<p>Bike theft is pretty much as bad as it gets here, but it does happen a lot if you use a cheap cable lock. I've never, ever felt unsafe here - even when walking around by myself at night (which I'm not condoning...).
There are times when townies come on campus or to parties outside. They can be very sketchy, but they're usually harmless in my experience.</p>
<p>actaully, according to [Pomona</a> College Class of 2013 | Facebook](<a href=“Facebook”>Facebook), President Oxtoby sent out the following email after being rated number one more dangerous school in america a few years back.</p>
<p>"To: The Pomona College Community</p>
<p>From: David Oxtoby,President</p>
<p>I am writing to let you know in advance about an article to appear on the Forbes.com Website later this week that will portray the College in a troubling and unfair light. Using the U.S. Department of Education campus crime statistics for the year 2005, a Forbes reporter is finalizing an article ranking American colleges according to the amount of crime reported on their campuses during that year. Depending upon how they parse the numbers, we may be listed in the top five for campuses with the most crime per capita – possibly even at number one.</p>
<p>Obviously, this runs counter our own experience – that this is an exceptionally safe campus. The main reasons for this unlikely ranking are twofold. First, the number of reported thefts at Pomona in 2005 was abnormally high – 71 as compared to 41 in 2004 and 33 in 2006. (A big part of this spike was due to one group of juveniles who were caught and
stopped.) Second, the number of reported “motor vehicle thefts” on our campus in 2005 was listed at 13. This misleading statistic includes 11 cases of unauthorized use of a golf cart.</p>
<p>I would stress that the safety of our campus community is not in question here. The number of thefts in 2005 was a genuine concern, not to be dismissed or minimized. However, it is important to note that reported crimes against people on our campus were virtually non-existent that year, and that they remain among the lowest in our peer group of colleges.
Paradoxically, our vulnerability to theft may be exacerbated by the fact that our students feel so safe on this campus that they sometimes neglect to lock their doors. We have been working to encourage them to take more reasonable precautions to safeguard their property, and we hope to continue to bring those numbers down in the future.</p>
<p>In reporting alleged criminal incidents, Pomona makes a strong effort to follow the letter of the reporting rules laid down by the Department of Education in compliance with the Clery Act. These rules specifically require campuses to report items involving golf carts and joy riding. We are also required to include any incident reported to campus security, even if no police report is ever filed.</p>
<p>In truth, I believe the article and chart to be printed in Forbes say more about the magazine’s methodology than they do about the relative security of Pomona’s campus. If Forbes’ intent was to identify campuses where personal security is a problem, then they have clearly failed. Pomona is, and will continue to be, a very safe place to live and work."</p>
<p>seriously, claremont is obviously a very wealthy area if you’ve ever been there, and most of the crime listed above is student-on-student, something that can happen at any college and something that is very easy to prevent. it seems like it’s not really crime that is a problem as the temptation of people leaving their stuff completely unlocked and out in the open. and when i was there, my tour guide/students described bike thefts as “bike borrowing”, i.e. someone takes your bike, rides it in an emergency, and leaves it halfway across campus. people are probably reporting these things as thefts simply because there are a crapload of bikes on campus times five campuses and it might be hard to find a missing bike simply through observation.</p>
<p>i didn’t see a single homeless person, sketchy townie, or anything remotely creepy or out of the ordinary while i was there. in my opinion, i’d rather be at a school where theft is a problem rather than one where rapings and muggings occur. it seems that pomona students are a little too trusting, and it would be a safe campus if people would take the time to just lock up their stuff. and in general, college kids are notriously stupid. they think they’re invincible and free and do a lot of dumb things.</p>
<p>on a side note, not to anyone in particular, I always wonder who these parents are that worry about “campus safety.” honestly, the world is an unsafe place. how long must one hide their kids in these “safe” utopias of low crime? I sort of understand not wanting to send a kid from westchester to some super large state university in a metropolis where rapings are common etc, but worrying about sending your kid to wealth-ridden suburbia because of a few thefts? there are general rules about safety that honestly, you’d think everyone would learn by age 18, but after meeting kids from all different areas and lifestyles at various programs, only kids who live in or frequenty large cities learn. don’t walk alone at night. don’t leave your stuff unprotected. don’t carry a lot of money/credit cards/identification in an expensive looking purse while walking down a sketchy street. don’t wear an outfit that makes you look like “you’re asking for it”. don’t get too drunk at a party where you don’t know many people. preferably, don’t get drunk at all. these things will keep you a lot safer than using statistics and anecdotes to try to find the safest schools.</p>
<p>It’s kind of a joke amongst most Pomona students that they go to the #1 Most Dangerous School in America as rated by the statistics. But as duly noted, a lot of the cases of “Grand Theft Auto” involve mischievous students engaging in “unauthorized” use of a golf cart. These usually lead to “high speed” golf cart chases.</p>
<p>Joking aside, it’s also a bit silly to think about the serious dangers of violent crime in Claremont given the craziness that went down at other schools like Virginia Tech.</p>
<p>And of course, things like date rape and theft are an issue on any campus in America.</p>
<p>Claremont, the city, should be OK in terms of the crime rate. I read in a book that was written by students that racism and homophobia are a problem at Pomona College and I heard on the news about some racial crime at Pomona a year or two ago. I don’t recall what it is. San Bernardino is known for racism and it is next door. I haven’t heard anything about crime at the other Claremont Colleges.</p>
<p>Funfun… I know you say you’ve been speaking to experts and reading books and all that… but I really think you should be talking to students. We’re the ones actually experiencing it.</p>
<p>Every once in a blue moon there is some kind of “biased related incident” that happen at Pomona College. But honestly, I look forward to those emails because they’re usually hysterical. The worst it gets is some kids (who may or may not have even been form the college) were once caught “throwing a tortilla” at a car. I have no idea where you heard that racism and homophobia are present at the college. Yes, the college is primarily white and heterosexual, but pretty much everyone is open and accepting. If not, they know damn well to keep their mouths shut at Pomona. </p>
<p>The ‘city’ of Claremont is also, for the most part, very safe. It is very conservative, but there is little to no mixing between Claremont and the colleges here. Yes, the city of Pomona and other cities around the area do have higher crime rates, but we really have absolutely no interaction with them and it is not a problem at all.</p>
<p>Even walking back to my dorm at 3 or 4am alone (which I am not condoning) I have never once felt the slightest threatened. Nor have I felt any prejudice for being a minority student.</p>
<p>Okay, funfun, do you have some kind of personal vendetta against Pomona? In every single post you claim some new problem…that students who actually live on campus year-round have never heard of!</p>
<p>I just hope your misleading posts don’t turn off anyone browsing these boards. Of course it’s important to do as much research as possible about the schools you apply to, but you’re drawing conclusions that aren’t there.</p>
<p>Pomona is amazing as far as I’m concerned. Not perfect, obviously - what school is? - but pretty damn close.</p>
<p>If you check my posts, you will notice that they have nothing to do with the teaching or the academics of the school. Any school is a weighing situation. For anything in Claremont, one has to weigh the smog, the water problems, and the kind of area in which the college is located. I believe the City of Claremont is probably peaceful but conservative. The surrounding cities. The only negative concern about Pomona College I’ve seen, came from a book written by students of all the colleges.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking, which book are you referring to?</p>
<p>Funfun, it sounds like Pomona isn’t a good match for you. Why don’t you just let it go?</p>
<p>Try not to confuse Pomona the city, which has some problems with crime, with Pomona the college, which is quietly situated in the suburbs of Claremont with minimal issues regarding crime.</p>
<p>Pomona is very safe.</p>
<p>Sephirot, are you really trying to drive an ecologist away from Pomona? If you don’t care about ecology, you are the one who is not a good match, Sephirot. Fun, fun, there is plenty of room for you at Pomona College. The smog is much worse than they are letting on. In September and October, there are days were we are not supposed to exercise outdoors until after dark. I live there. Claremont is a good clean up project for students who care. Ecologists, please stay. We need you.</p>