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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Hopkins Homewood campus is a a block or two from some very crime ridden streets. It's also near some very nice areas but those too are near high crime areas. This is the nature of Baltimore: you're never far (generally blocks away) from
a high crime area. It's not like many cities in which the crime is more segregated.

That said, violent crime against members of the Hopkins community is exceedingly rare. Same as it's ultimately rare against the university community at Chicago or Yale. Ultimately, many thousands of people go to and from these campuses each day and the incidence of violent crime
against citizens is extremely rare. 99.999% of the violent crime is within the drug community (which hopefully your child will not be apart of). What is a daily part of life is nuisance crime: car break ins, car theft, etc.

--I lived in Baltimore for 20 years while attending undergrad at Hopkins followed by a PhD at the medical campus.[/quote]

Went to JHU 20+ years ago. I think it's actually a lot nicer now with more options for eateries and night life. Still a very dangerous city with lots of car and other break ins. [b]I would say about 1/4 of everyone I knew there (students) by the time I had graduated had been mugged, car theft, home break in, or even car jacked.[/b] Not violent crimes, but robberies. But all off campus incidents.

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I lived in Baltimore for 20 years: undergrad, grad, first job, first homeownership, etc.  Lived in Charles Village, Hamden, Mount Vernon, Federal Hill.  
I never never knew anyone who was car jacked or mugged by gun or knife point.

I did have a car stolen and had my car broken into about 10 times.  Mostly when I left something in view but several times when the car was just parked on the street.  I had one friend who just started leaving his car unlocked.  If people were going to rummage through it, at least he didn't have to get a new window.   [/quote]

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