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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anonymous wrote:
USC does not even make the top 100 among "unsafe campuses" in rankings of campus crime and safety. Meanwhile....

#2 Harvard 
#[[b]b]16 UPenn [/b] - Crappy West Philly neighborhood[/b]
[b]#17 Brown - Providence - the armpit of New England[/b]
[b]#18 Columbia - Harlem[/b]
#19 Stanford 
[b]#25 Yale - New Haven is a real sh*thole[/b]

More at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/14/most-dangerous-college-campuses-ranked.html

It's not the "campus"that's the problem, it's the neighborhood surrounding it. Stay on campus all the time and you're likely to be safe. If that's how you want to live. [/quote]

Yep, do those other schools have gang members living and crack houses in the immediate area surrounding the school (ie, right across the street where many students live in off campus housing)?[/quote]

Angeleno here again.  Oh, yes, please pull out the well-worn stereotype of crack houses and gang members just surrounding the place.  I feel free to walk, with my children, around the USC neighborhood whenever we visit the many museums (Natural History for one) or attend a swim meet there.  Am I cautious, yes, but during the day, by-and-large, you have university students walking the campus, museums visitors milling about, local Latino families watching recreational soccer games and enjoying picnics in the park areas, neighborhood kids visiting the pool facilities on a hot day.

No doubt that some of the surrounding areas are not the best, and crime is always around the corner in any large city, so you must be alert, aware of your surroundings, and careful.  Use common sense, particularly after dark.  The good news is that L.A.'s crime rate and gang activity is way down from its heyday in the late '80s- mid '90s.[/quote]

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