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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As my friend who is a reporter and author covering crime and criminal justice policy frequently says, conventional wisdom on crime is always wrong.  PP’s implicit assumption that suburbs or small towns are safer than large cities is not correct — small towns with ineffective policing are some of the most dangerous places in the country per capita.

Here’s a data driven analysis of the 25 most dangerous colleges based on rates of reported violent crime.  The methodology is explained so that readers can judge for themselves if they agree.

https://www.degreechoices.com/blog/most-dangerous-college-campuses/

Temple is not on this list, but Stanford, UCLA, USC, U of Minnesota, Auburn, Texas Tech, Texas state, University of Houston, UAB, UF Gainesville, and UC San Diego are.

Its better to look at data than ask the opinions of uninformed internet strangers (including me - I haven’t looked closely at the methodology of this list).

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I'll save you some time: the methodology here leaves much to be desired. Put simply, anyone who thinks Auburn is more dangerous than Temple is totally 'tarded.[/quote]

[b]Auburn has almost three times the per capita incidence of violence against women[/b] (3.05 per thousand at Auburn vs  1.16 at Temple) and  a slightly higher rate of major crime (2.86 per thousand at Auburn vs 2.5 per 1000 at Temple).

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/auburn-university/student-life/crime/#

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/temple-university/student-life/crime/#[/quote]

(a) You’re probably going to find higher per capita rates in any small town where the student population outnumbers the local population;

(b) Do you really think Philly and NY and San Francisco crime statistics are anywhere close to correct?  I’d rather send my kid to a town where they actually enforce the law and put people who commit crimes in jail. Guess what? They’re going to have higher “crime rates” because they don’t ignore crime. [/quote]

A) This is absolute word salad.   Per capita crime rates are, by definition, how you compare apples to apples.   This desperate spin doesn’t even merit a response.

B). Sorry, you don’t get to discount data that disagrees with your prejudices just because you choose to.  And yeah, having known many cops in both major cities and small towns, I’ll go with the large force every single time for accurate reporting.  Also, defendants being incarcerated or not has no bearing on stats reported to the FBI uniform crime reports.

Again, PP wants to believe what their prejudices tell them rather than what the data shows.  Typical whenever crime is discussed.  [/quote]

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