Another UChicago student murdered. 20-yo undergraduate dies after being shot on subway.

[Anonymous]

DCUM mothers once again going nuts when a white person is a victim while not giving a fig about black and brown victims getting murdered every day.

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Please cut out the racial division crap.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM mothers once again going nuts when a white person is a victim while not giving a fig about black and brown victims getting murdered every day.

Based

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Anonymous wrote:The black market guns find their way to Chicago because the whole joint has been a criminal enterprise for decades.

Oh, and get ready for matters onto worsen with the new criminal justice reform bill that just passed in IL last week.

Yes, I agree that the conservatives running Indiana have been corrupt criminals for decades, taking blood money from the NRA and using their lax gun laws to flood Chicago with guns.
Mike Pence was part of that.

For a while the Chicago Tribune was running some articles tracking the origin of guns used for chicago crime. A large number went through Indiana. Which is only 30 min from U of C.

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Chicago police have been corrupt too and done a lot of damage to policing in the city.

We know how to reduce violent crime in cities:
1. Prosecute violent criminals and make sure they face consequences. (David Simon and the Wire crew in Baltimore have talked a lot about this.) This is on the police. Requires police getting close to communities not just putting on their guns and busting up low level drug crime for stats. It’s not just about money. Cops have to have a beat and win people’s trust. If you live in the city do you know the name of the cop on your beat? No? Exactly.
2. Get rid of guns, especially handguns. Republicans, Scalia to Koch to Bush, have made this hard to impossible.
3. Invest in poor communities; raise wages, get people good jobs, spread kids out across schools (bus them to rich white suburbs— this is very effective.)

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Try again, the majority that they can actually trace are from Mississippi. That study that the Trib quoted said 20% from Indiana. You just wanted to toss in that Pence reference.

Avoid that Purple line El then if you think they’re coming to HP from Gary. This particular shooting was Green line.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here. UChicago is kid's first choice for 2022

QUESTION for **those of you who know the area***** (there are a number of you who've posted so far)

If you bring a car to UC, and you want to drive it from Hyde Park to, say, your internship downtown, or a restaurant etc ...

are you at real risk for being carjacked in the neighborhood? or held up at gunpoint as you walk to car from your off campus apartment? will your car be stolen from private apartment garage?

For context, kid lives in District of Columbia and has excellent street sense _for his age_. Knows a lot of street tricks to increase personal safety. But of course, nobody can overcome crossfire stray bullets and the like

I think it’d be stupid for an undergrad to bring a car to UChicago for lots of reasons (e.g. there’s good public transit, parking will either be expensive and/or a PITA, driving in the snow is no fun, especially for an inexperienced driver), but likelihood of car theft/carjacking/being held up at gunpoint is not one of them. My DC kid had no problems in her 4 (recent) years there. We rented cars when we visited (and stayed in Hyde Park) — also no problems.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here. UChicago is kid's first choice for 2022

QUESTION for **those of you who know the area***** (there are a number of you who've posted so far)

If you bring a car to UC, and you want to drive it from Hyde Park to, say, your internship downtown, or a restaurant etc ...

are you at real risk for being carjacked in the neighborhood? or held up at gunpoint as you walk to car from your off campus apartment? will your car be stolen from private apartment garage?

For context, kid lives in District of Columbia and has excellent street sense _for his age_. Knows a lot of street tricks to increase personal safety. But of course, nobody can overcome crossfire stray bullets and the like

The murder of a grad student in regents was effectively a campus murder. Don't pretend it was not.

When I attended UofC for grad school I lived in Lincoln Park because of safety concerns. My best friend lived downtown.

I did not let my HS senior apply last year because if safety concerns.

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Neither did I. The incessant mailings turned my kid off anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds SO far from an idyllic place to grow into adulthood.

Campus and many Hyde Park homes are gorgeous. The area really needs $1 billion in investment from Obama's lakefront presidential library, plus the additional 24/7 public safety orbit it will create. But that appears at least five years away, if it ever comes to fruition, so I wouldn't hold your breath about things changing for the better anytime soon.

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Anonymous wrote:Hyde Park is the neighborhood around campus. It is gorgeous and it is safe-ish. The problem is that the neighborhoods around Hyde Park and campus are poor and have a lot of crime.

Campus is actually in two neighborhoods, both Hyde Park and Woodlawn, with Woodlawn being the furthest thing from safe. And yes, neighboring neighborhoods are even worse. And to get downtown you have to use public transport with and in direct proximity to criminals. And of course if you’re a criminal looking for easy convenient marks, are you going to go all the way downtown or target rich college kids a few blocks away?

This is horribly sad, but...I have spent many a time taking the El and the bus to downtown from Hyde Park without any issue. "black people" =/= criminals

U-Chicago is going to have to deal with this in a meaningful way if they want to continue to attract applicants in the same numbers as recent years.

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Anonymous wrote:Campus and the El are usually pretty safe, or as safe as any other big city. A lot of places are seeing a lot of violence this summer.

But Chicago (the city) always sees a lot of violence.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hyde Park is the neighborhood around campus. It is gorgeous and it is safe-ish. The problem is that the neighborhoods around Hyde Park and campus are poor and have a lot of crime.

Campus is actually in two neighborhoods, both Hyde Park and Woodlawn, with Woodlawn being the furthest thing from safe. And yes, neighboring neighborhoods are even worse. And to get downtown you have to use public transport with and in direct proximity to criminals. And of course if you’re a criminal looking for easy convenient marks, are you going to go all the way downtown or target rich college kids a few blocks away?

This is horribly sad, but...I have spent many a time taking the El and the bus to downtown from Hyde Park without any issue. "black people" =/= criminals

U-Chicago is going to have to deal with this in a meaningful way if they want to continue to attract applicants in the same numbers as recent years.

Would you want to send your college kid to a city where 90+ people murdered in one weekend??

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Anonymous wrote:NP here. UChicago is kid's first choice for 2022

QUESTION for **those of you who know the area***** (there are a number of you who've posted so far)

If you bring a car to UC, and you want to drive it from Hyde Park to, say, your internship downtown, or a restaurant etc ...

are you at real risk for being carjacked in the neighborhood? or held up at gunpoint as you walk to car from your off campus apartment? will your car be stolen from private apartment garage?

For context, kid lives in District of Columbia and has excellent street sense _for his age_. Knows a lot of street tricks to increase personal safety. But of course, nobody can overcome crossfire stray bullets and the like

You really don't want a car in Chicago as a freshman...not even sure it is allowed.

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Anonymous wrote:“Chicago saw an incredibly violent holiday weekend as July Fourth saw around 88 people shot, including over a dozen killed in crimes across the city. 

Police reported dozens of incidents from Friday through Sunday, with victims ranging in age from 12 to 30. Chicago Alderman Anthony Napolitano called the city a "war zone" and slammed local leaders for the increase in crime.”

This is headline news from today (July 5).

88 people shot in one weekend.

Horrifying hellhole of a city.