<p>Mini--that a high numberof crimes happen to young women in college campuses and high schools might just have to do with the fact that this is where they are. You have not proved through numbers that those places are more dangerous; you need to have the percentage of crimes there in a ratio to the chances that that's where a young woman is.</p>
<p>Several years ago, my daughter was severely beaten while jogging through the park near our house, three in the afternoon on a sunny summer day. you just never know when some punk decides he needs to prove he belongs in the gang.</p>
<p>Broken nose, bruised kidney, two black eyes. The hardest thing I have ever done was watch her get on a plane to Ireland for her study abroad a week later, looking like that. The Irish and other folks she went to class with sure got a startling image of America.</p>
<p>I hesitated to even post on this thread, because I've been told on these boards before that it was, basically, her fault for somehow not avoiding it, but I have to say your flippancy is a little sickening to me.</p>