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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the last post for real?  Makes South Central LA sound like a favela, which maybe it is.

Irony is that the girl probably could go to George Mason with dozens of her Marshall classmates and get as good an education as at USC.[/quote]

Are these descriptions exaggerations?  If indeed south central Los Angeles is this dangerous, shouldn't the National Guard be sent in to patrol the streets?  What is an equivalent neighborhood in terms of crime in this area?[/quote]

Crime has been targeted at the students and the National Guard has been called out before - for the Watts riots and the Rodney King riots. The place is a powder keg.  [/quote]

The Watts Rebellion was in 1965.  USC leadership,made a conscious decision to remain in South Central LA after this.  In 1992, the  USC campus remained untouched as businesses were burned and looted nearby.  This is largely credited with the relationship the University and its students have with the community outside.  More than 50 percent of USC students volunteer for community service programs in the neighborhoods surrounding USC.

The 1992 riots that occurred in response to the verdict in the Rodney asking trial were much more wide ranging, with violence and mayhem extending beyond South Central LA.  Koreatown, located in West LA, was hardest hit.

All this history bring said, LA is no more or less dangerous than any other very large Americsn city.  [/quote]

During the 1992 riots, businesses directly across the street from the campus were burned to the ground. The rioters marched up one of the streets surrounding the school to Koreatown (BTW, Koreatown is not in West LA (West LA is Westwood, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, etc). Koreatown was hard hit was because months before the Rodney King verdict, an AA teen was shot and killed by a Korean store owner. The store owner got off lightly and there had been a lot of tension between the AA and immigrant Korean business owners. The campus was also spared because some say the school asked the media reporting live not to focus any attention on the school because the rioters would usually go over and do more destruction to locations that were on tv. The military shut down on and off ramps to the freeway right up the street from the school because they wanted to stop rioters from hurting and killing motorists on the freeway and didn't want them to block that major escape route.[/quote]

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