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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would.

[b]Many schools cheat on their Cleary reporting of on-campus crime as required by the federal government.[/b]

Would probably help if you named the schools ? (Drexel ? Temple ? U Penn ?)[/quote]

No, you're wrong. Ask anyone with a college kid who has opted into getting the emails. They come all the time. They want their community to know what's going on.

Liberty is in huge trouble for violating the Clery Act.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/03/liberty-university-clery-act/

[QUOTE]Liberty University has failed for years to keep its campus safe and repeatedly violated the federal law that specifies how it should do so, according to preliminary confidential findings from an Education Department inquiry.

The initial report on the school’s Clery Act compliance — which the university can respond to and dispute before the department makes a final determination — paints a picture of a university that discouraged people from reporting crimes, underreported the claims it received and, meanwhile, marketed its Virginia campus as one of the safest in the country.

Liberty failed to warn the campus community about gas leaks, bomb threats and people credibly accused of repeated acts of sexual violence — including a senior administrator and an athlete — according to the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post. [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Crime statistics, too, were systematically underreported, according to the 74-page review, which says Liberty could not provide basic documentation to substantiate its campus crime figures. The authors note that schools that participate in federal financial aid programs are legally required to produce records of this kind.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Investigators also said the university might have “simply estimated its crime statistics or otherwise made them up to serve the long-standing narrative … that it was the safest college in Virginia.” They cite a campus police officer and witnesses who saw “stacks of incident reports laying on tables in an unsecured room” and “learned that the records were to be shredded.”[/QUOTE][/quote]

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