Violent crime @ UChicago

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Anonymous wrote:I now know why Im bombarded by UChicago emails for my DD. I used to live in ChiTown and at that time it was my favorite place in the US, however we will not be applying to any Chicago schools, not even Northwestern, it is just too risky.

Why not Northwestern? Do you think that the Northwestern campus itself is not safe or are you concerned about students going off-campus into Chicago on the weekend?

Look at the increase in crime lately. Data speaks.
Migrants have been bussed to Evanston and Wilmette ; tent cities/homelessness everywhere

Data shows that migrants are responsible for less crime than Americans. I feel pretty confident in guessing the people robbing UofC kids are Americans.

They are. Also, the neighborhood population that includes the robbers has been deeply hostile to a migrant shelter that was established on the south side. The migrants are definitely not the problem.

Migrant crime should be ZERO because they should not be here at all.

Migrant crime and “American” crime are underreported because the Democrats seek to avoid the political consequences of their policy of encouraging lawlessness.

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Anonymous wrote:I now know why Im bombarded by UChicago emails for my DD. I used to live in ChiTown and at that time it was my favorite place in the US, however we will not be applying to any Chicago schools, not even Northwestern, it is just too risky.

Why not Northwestern? Do you think that the Northwestern campus itself is not safe or are you concerned about students going off-campus into Chicago on the weekend?

Look at the increase in crime lately. Data speaks.
Migrants have been bussed to Evanston and Wilmette ; tent cities/homelessness everywhere

Data shows that migrants are responsible for less crime than Americans. I feel pretty confident in guessing the people robbing UofC kids are Americans.

They are. Also, the neighborhood population that includes the robbers has been deeply hostile to a migrant shelter that was established on the south side. The migrants are definitely not the problem.

Migrant crime should be ZERO because they should not be here at all.

Migrant crime and “American” crime are underreported because the Democrats seek to avoid the political consequences of their policy of encouraging lawlessness.

No country has zero foreigners visiting…how many times do we read about Americans committing crimes overseas…it’s a lot. Are they migrants?

Your statement of course is nonsense…time to go back to your mom’s basement and watch more Newsmax.

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Anonymous wrote:I now know why Im bombarded by UChicago emails for my DD. I used to live in ChiTown and at that time it was my favorite place in the US, however we will not be applying to any Chicago schools, not even Northwestern, it is just too risky.

Why not Northwestern? Do you think that the Northwestern campus itself is not safe or are you concerned about students going off-campus into Chicago on the weekend?

I fear my DD going off campus and accidentally getting into a bad area without her knowledge. I am more comfortable with Penn (not that she is likely to get in) as I know Philly very well and could educate her on where she can and cannot go.

Do your own research. There’s a lot of stats out there.

https://www.northwestern.edu/up/facts-and-figures/campus-crime/daily-blotter/

Which illustrates how safe Northwestern's Evanston campus is if you read the police reports: "unsecured building", "medical attention", & "suspicious circumstances".

If anyone thinks that Penn's campus and Penn's area of Philly is safer than NU & Evanston, you are either deliberately trying to mislead readers or you have never been to Northwestern & Evanston.

I am not saying Evanston is dangerous, its a great area, I am just saying what if there is a party at u Ch or another part of Chicago--is my kid going to know to say no. When I was 20 I didnt exclusively hang out where my school is.

When we toured Northwestern, there were some parts of Evanston that I felt were sketchy.

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Anonymous wrote:I now know why Im bombarded by UChicago emails for my DD. I used to live in ChiTown and at that time it was my favorite place in the US, however we will not be applying to any Chicago schools, not even Northwestern, it is just too risky.

Why not Northwestern? Do you think that the Northwestern campus itself is not safe or are you concerned about students going off-campus into Chicago on the weekend?

I fear my DD going off campus and accidentally getting into a bad area without her knowledge. I am more comfortable with Penn (not that she is likely to get in) as I know Philly very well and could educate her on where she can and cannot go.

Do your own research. There’s a lot of stats out there.

https://www.northwestern.edu/up/facts-and-figures/campus-crime/daily-blotter/

Which illustrates how safe Northwestern's Evanston campus is if you read the police reports: "unsecured building", "medical attention", & "suspicious circumstances".

If anyone thinks that Penn's campus and Penn's area of Philly is safer than NU & Evanston, you are either deliberately trying to mislead readers or you have never been to Northwestern & Evanston.

I am not saying Evanston is dangerous, its a great area, I am just saying what if there is a party at u Ch or another part of Chicago--is my kid going to know to say no. When I was 20 I didnt exclusively hang out where my school is.

When we toured Northwestern, there were some parts of Evanston that I felt were sketchy.

Because parts of it ARE very sketchy. Evanston is an urban town bordering Chicago. It’s on the same subway system, subway stops are just west of campus.

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Anonymous wrote:I now know why Im bombarded by UChicago emails for my DD. I used to live in ChiTown and at that time it was my favorite place in the US, however we will not be applying to any Chicago schools, not even Northwestern, it is just too risky.

Why not Northwestern? Do you think that the Northwestern campus itself is not safe or are you concerned about students going off-campus into Chicago on the weekend?

I fear my DD going off campus and accidentally getting into a bad area without her knowledge. I am more comfortable with Penn (not that she is likely to get in) as I know Philly very well and could educate her on where she can and cannot go.

Do your own research. There’s a lot of stats out there.

https://www.northwestern.edu/up/facts-and-figures/campus-crime/daily-blotter/

Which illustrates how safe Northwestern's Evanston campus is if you read the police reports: "unsecured building", "medical attention", & "suspicious circumstances".

If anyone thinks that Penn's campus and Penn's area of Philly is safer than NU & Evanston, you are either deliberately trying to mislead readers or you have never been to Northwestern & Evanston.

I am not saying Evanston is dangerous, its a great area, I am just saying what if there is a party at u Ch or another part of Chicago--is my kid going to know to say no. When I was 20 I didnt exclusively hang out where my school is.

When we toured Northwestern, there were some parts of Evanston that I felt were sketchy.

Because parts of it ARE very sketchy. Evanston is an urban town bordering Chicago. It’s on the same subway system, subway stops are just west of campus.

Interesting -- Evanston seemed a lot like Bethesda to me when we visited. The parts I saw didn't seem sketchy at all.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s really dangerous. The alerts that come out several times a night are shocking. Every single night.

If you are seriously considering, make sure you get access so you can see the sheer number of urgent security alerts that go out every single day.

And if you are set on sending your kid here:
Make sure you hire security for them to follow them around. I’m not kidding.
Parents have pooled together to hire their own Security/drivers etc.

When? Where? This sounds like a lie.

Parents are doing this at Berkeley.

https://www.safebears.org/

There’s a PI agency everyone in Chicago uses for security. And there are some national companies as well.

They typically do an on /off rotation and will be parked outside the dorm and just follow your kid around after hours.

The scariest part of this incident was that it happened during the day.

So you know many students (“everyone”) using the PI agency? What’s the name of it? Just curious; now aware of this. They follow students around off and on campus?

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Anonymous wrote:I now know why Im bombarded by UChicago emails for my DD. I used to live in ChiTown and at that time it was my favorite place in the US, however we will not be applying to any Chicago schools, not even Northwestern, it is just too risky.

Why not Northwestern? Do you think that the Northwestern campus itself is not safe or are you concerned about students going off-campus into Chicago on the weekend?

Look at the increase in crime lately. Data speaks.
Migrants have been bussed to Evanston and Wilmette ; tent cities/homelessness everywhere

Data shows that migrants are responsible for less crime than Americans. I feel pretty confident in guessing the people robbing UofC kids are Americans.

They are. Also, the neighborhood population that includes the robbers has been deeply hostile to a migrant shelter that was established on the south side. The migrants are definitely not the problem.

Migrant crime should be ZERO because they should not be here at all.

Migrant crime and “American” crime are underreported because the Democrats seek to avoid the political consequences of their policy of encouraging lawlessness.

No country has zero foreigners visiting…how many times do we read about Americans committing crimes overseas…it’s a lot. Are they migrants?

Your statement of course is nonsense…time to go back to your mom’s basement and watch more Newsmax.

Yes but when I visit France I do not hop on their social services bandwagon and put my kids in their schools all at tax payer expense. Try again you nut job. The people in those adjoining communities and in this country have a reason to be angry.

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Anonymous wrote:I now know why Im bombarded by UChicago emails for my DD. I used to live in ChiTown and at that time it was my favorite place in the US, however we will not be applying to any Chicago schools, not even Northwestern, it is just too risky.

Why not Northwestern? Do you think that the Northwestern campus itself is not safe or are you concerned about students going off-campus into Chicago on the weekend?

Look at the increase in crime lately. Data speaks.
Migrants have been bussed to Evanston and Wilmette ; tent cities/homelessness everywhere

Data shows that migrants are responsible for less crime than Americans. I feel pretty confident in guessing the people robbing UofC kids are Americans.

They are. Also, the neighborhood population that includes the robbers has been deeply hostile to a migrant shelter that was established on the south side. The migrants are definitely not the problem.

Migrant crime should be ZERO because they should not be here at all.

Migrant crime and “American” crime are underreported because the Democrats seek to avoid the political consequences of their policy of encouraging lawlessness.

No country has zero foreigners visiting…how many times do we read about Americans committing crimes overseas…it’s a lot. Are they migrants?

Your statement of course is nonsense…time to go back to your mom’s basement and watch more Newsmax.

Yes but when I visit France I do not hop on their social services bandwagon and put my kids in their schools all at tax payer expense. Try again you nut job. The people in those adjoining communities and in this country have a reason to be angry.

Funny who you are calling a nut job…when you are literally a nut job.

Again…mom is calling…your time upstairs is over…time to go back to the basement.

Why are we even discussing migrants when these are Americans robbing and murdering other Americans.

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Anonymous wrote:I now know why Im bombarded by UChicago emails for my DD. I used to live in ChiTown and at that time it was my favorite place in the US, however we will not be applying to any Chicago schools, not even Northwestern, it is just too risky.

Why not Northwestern? Do you think that the Northwestern campus itself is not safe or are you concerned about students going off-campus into Chicago on the weekend?

I fear my DD going off campus and accidentally getting into a bad area without her knowledge. I am more comfortable with Penn (not that she is likely to get in) as I know Philly very well and could educate her on where she can and cannot go.

Do your own research. There’s a lot of stats out there.

https://www.northwestern.edu/up/facts-and-figures/campus-crime/daily-blotter/

Which illustrates how safe Northwestern's Evanston campus is if you read the police reports: "unsecured building", "medical attention", & "suspicious circumstances".

If anyone thinks that Penn's campus and Penn's area of Philly is safer than NU & Evanston, you are either deliberately trying to mislead readers or you have never been to Northwestern & Evanston.

I am not saying Evanston is dangerous, its a great area, I am just saying what if there is a party at u Ch or another part of Chicago--is my kid going to know to say no. When I was 20 I didnt exclusively hang out where my school is.

NP, but LOL at the idea that people are traveling to the South Side to attend parties. 99% of NU students never set foot on UChicago's campus all four years of college.

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Anonymous wrote:I now know why Im bombarded by UChicago emails for my DD. I used to live in ChiTown and at that time it was my favorite place in the US, however we will not be applying to any Chicago schools, not even Northwestern, it is just too risky.

Why not Northwestern? Do you think that the Northwestern campus itself is not safe or are you concerned about students going off-campus into Chicago on the weekend?

I fear my DD going off campus and accidentally getting into a bad area without her knowledge. I am more comfortable with Penn (not that she is likely to get in) as I know Philly very well and could educate her on where she can and cannot go.

Do your own research. There’s a lot of stats out there.

https://www.northwestern.edu/up/facts-and-figures/campus-crime/daily-blotter/

Which illustrates how safe Northwestern's Evanston campus is if you read the police reports: "unsecured building", "medical attention", & "suspicious circumstances".

If anyone thinks that Penn's campus and Penn's area of Philly is safer than NU & Evanston, you are either deliberately trying to mislead readers or you have never been to Northwestern & Evanston.

I am not saying Evanston is dangerous, its a great area, I am just saying what if there is a party at u Ch or another part of Chicago--is my kid going to know to say no. When I was 20 I didnt exclusively hang out where my school is.

When we toured Northwestern, there were some parts of Evanston that I felt were sketchy.

Because parts of it ARE very sketchy. Evanston is an urban town bordering Chicago. It’s on the same subway system, subway stops are just west of campus.

Interesting -- Evanston seemed a lot like Bethesda to me when we visited. The parts I saw didn't seem sketchy at all.

The west side of Evanston has a crime problem. The NU campus is in the extreme eastern portion, & has nice homes, older apartment buildings, & not much crime.

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Anonymous wrote:I now know why Im bombarded by UChicago emails for my DD. I used to live in ChiTown and at that time it was my favorite place in the US, however we will not be applying to any Chicago schools, not even Northwestern, it is just too risky.

Why not Northwestern? Do you think that the Northwestern campus itself is not safe or are you concerned about students going off-campus into Chicago on the weekend?

Look at the increase in crime lately. Data speaks.
Migrants have been bussed to Evanston and Wilmette ; tent cities/homelessness everywhere

Data shows that migrants are responsible for less crime than Americans. I feel pretty confident in guessing the people robbing UofC kids are Americans.

They are. Also, the neighborhood population that includes the robbers has been deeply hostile to a migrant shelter that was established on the south side. The migrants are definitely not the problem.

Migrant crime should be ZERO because they should not be here at all.

Migrant crime and “American” crime are underreported because the Democrats seek to avoid the political consequences of their policy of encouraging lawlessness.

Maybe it's negative, since they're basically acting as meatshields for the students.

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Anonymous wrote:I now know why Im bombarded by UChicago emails for my DD. I used to live in ChiTown and at that time it was my favorite place in the US, however we will not be applying to any Chicago schools, not even Northwestern, it is just too risky.

Why not Northwestern? Do you think that the Northwestern campus itself is not safe or are you concerned about students going off-campus into Chicago on the weekend?

I fear my DD going off campus and accidentally getting into a bad area without her knowledge. I am more comfortable with Penn (not that she is likely to get in) as I know Philly very well and could educate her on where she can and cannot go.

Do your own research. There’s a lot of stats out there.

https://www.northwestern.edu/up/facts-and-figures/campus-crime/daily-blotter/

Which illustrates how safe Northwestern's Evanston campus is if you read the police reports: "unsecured building", "medical attention", & "suspicious circumstances".

If anyone thinks that Penn's campus and Penn's area of Philly is safer than NU & Evanston, you are either deliberately trying to mislead readers or you have never been to Northwestern & Evanston.

I am not saying Evanston is dangerous, its a great area, I am just saying what if there is a party at u Ch or another part of Chicago--is my kid going to know to say no. When I was 20 I didnt exclusively hang out where my school is.

Idk about these days but when I went to Chicago Northwestern students virtually never came to parties on our campus (and Chicago students didn’t venture to NU). Chicago is a huge city and the two universities are super far from each other. Maybe NU students go to Loyola parties?

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Anonymous wrote:The broad daylight part is what really troubles me. Plus the getaway cars. If people are trawling the neighborhood looking for easy marks then maybe the campus police can lay out some traffic control speed bumps? I saw that in Mexico once. Nobody could go faster than 10mph without ripping the wheels off of the car. That most most most peaceful street in town.

Just a thought

Same. The looking and trawling for blonde white female students bothers me. This could have been my daughters good friend. You can say cry me a river, but that is exactly what is happening here. Why is that okay? Why is that acceptable as some sort of societal payback (not unlike the OJ case)? Y'all are truly sick in the head.

The trawling "yeah, get THAT one" is sick, sick, sick. Good for her for kicking the perp's arse. All parents need to emphasize self defense. Perps do this, because they know they can get away with it. If they get caught, it is nothing to them, maybe a badge of honor. A slap on the hand, and released to keep doing the same thing over and over again, maybe jail - which is three squares and a bed, probably more than they have at home. How much is enough? Because they hate the "rich" students? GMAFB.

Um.... you really don't have any experience with this do you? They rob people all over the city. Anybody with something in their hands (a purse, a box from their shopping, a laptop) looks like an easy snatch and run. If you care look at crime reports from the whole town. Criminals target people they think won't fight back. They were wrong about this girl. But please understand that the next time that kid tries to rob somebody they will be even more violent. Real talk from somebody not trying to sell you a mail order pillow.

Also, "three squares and a bed" sounds like something you learned from a 1950s crime drama. Do you actually think they are doing this because they are hungry? Use some common sense. A hungry man with a gun is going to rob a restaurant and eat that moment, not snatch a purse.

A hungry man with a gun? Are you for real? They have a getaway car in the frame. Watch the video. When I was homeless, I certainly could not afford a car. I didn't go around holding people up. What's your GD excuse, you know so much? What else should we be handing criminals? Our phones? What else? What is next? Are you for real?

You should re-read the comment... these guys were obviously not hungry. If they were they would have robbed a restaurant.

Exactly this. Other PP has her knickers in a twist because she thinks robbing "rich white blonde" (because aren't they all??!!) students is perfectly acceptable, because why not to stick it to the man (right OJ, right??!!). Not only that, but the perps must be "hungry", which is what leads them to do such things - it is an acceptable way of life, for those who look like the perps, for PP. And blonde white girl should be honored to be held at gunpoint for her hard earned phone.

Because no white blonde student has ever gone hungry, only people who meet PP's description, usually only those who look like the perps. GTFOH. I hope more people who look like that white blonde girl start shooting back. I hope that if this happened to my DC's friend in an urban location, that is exactly how it would end - the perp gets shot, because they deserve it, and they expect people to hand over their hard earned phones, in broad daylight, while their getaway car is next to them, and their getaway driver says "that one - get HER!".

If you can afford a car, you can get your lazy perp arse a job to drive to.

Those of us without a car have walked in the pouring rain, without excuse. Stop making excuses for this behavior.

I’m so confused. I’ve read several of your comments and don’t know who you are arguing with. Maybe a post that was deleted? Who is making excuses for the perp’s behavior?

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Anonymous wrote:I now know why Im bombarded by UChicago emails for my DD. I used to live in ChiTown and at that time it was my favorite place in the US, however we will not be applying to any Chicago schools, not even Northwestern, it is just too risky.

Why not Northwestern? Do you think that the Northwestern campus itself is not safe or are you concerned about students going off-campus into Chicago on the weekend?

I fear my DD going off campus and accidentally getting into a bad area without her knowledge. I am more comfortable with Penn (not that she is likely to get in) as I know Philly very well and could educate her on where she can and cannot go.

Do your own research. There’s a lot of stats out there.

https://www.northwestern.edu/up/facts-and-figures/campus-crime/daily-blotter/

Which illustrates how safe Northwestern's Evanston campus is if you read the police reports: "unsecured building", "medical attention", & "suspicious circumstances".

If anyone thinks that Penn's campus and Penn's area of Philly is safer than NU & Evanston, you are either deliberately trying to mislead readers or you have never been to Northwestern & Evanston.

I am not saying Evanston is dangerous, its a great area, I am just saying what if there is a party at u Ch or another part of Chicago--is my kid going to know to say no. When I was 20 I didnt exclusively hang out where my school is.

When we toured Northwestern, there were some parts of Evanston that I felt were sketchy.

Because parts of it ARE very sketchy. Evanston is an urban town bordering Chicago. It’s on the same subway system, subway stops are just west of campus.

Interesting -- Evanston seemed a lot like Bethesda to me when we visited. The parts I saw didn't seem sketchy at all.

The west side of Evanston has a crime problem. The NU campus is in the extreme eastern portion, & has nice homes, older apartment buildings, & not much crime.

Do NU students have their own private subway stops and private subway cars? If you were a criminal in the bad part of town, who would you target?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s really dangerous. The alerts that come out several times a night are shocking. Every single night.

If you are seriously considering, make sure you get access so you can see the sheer number of urgent security alerts that go out every single day.

And if you are set on sending your kid here:
Make sure you hire security for them to follow them around. I’m not kidding.
Parents have pooled together to hire their own Security/drivers etc.

When? Where? This sounds like a lie.

Parents are doing this at Berkeley.

https://www.safebears.org/

There’s a PI agency everyone in Chicago uses for security. And there are some national companies as well.

They typically do an on /off rotation and will be parked outside the dorm and just follow your kid around after hours.

The scariest part of this incident was that it happened during the day.

Can the person who wrote this elaborate? What’s the name of the agency that tails students around campus and Chicagoland? I understand students value safety but they are okay with being tracked at all hours?Must be a hefty sum to do this. How does “everyone” afford it?