If you do nothing else today, read "Doomed by Diversity," about the wonderful promise of the Golden Girl at UNC-Chapel Hill and her tragic end by a pair of young career criminals--and the utterly dysfunctional criminal justice system in North Carolina. This piece by Nicholas Stix is one of the best things I've read, very much like Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.
Chan should pay especial note how criminals are now targeting colleges and off-campus venues. There are easy pickings there, and the universities often fudge about the true state of affairs.
I read an op-ed about the dangers of climbing Mt. Everest in the New York Times. It turns out the author, Freddie Wilkinson, is from Madison, NH.
Chan should pay especial note how criminals are now targeting colleges and off-campus venues. There are easy pickings there, and the universities often fudge about the true state of affairs.
I read an op-ed about the dangers of climbing Mt. Everest in the New York Times. It turns out the author, Freddie Wilkinson, is from Madison, NH.
Unfortunately this isn't an old story. College campuses have always been seen as easy pickings for those of the scumbag persuasion.
In my college days (back in the 70's) there was a serial rapist attacking coeds on campus. We set up escort schedules to accompany young women back to their dorm rooms during the evening hours and checked them for intruders before they entered.
This went on for seven weeks before they finally caught the perp, a known sexual predator living in a nearby town.
Campus crime always seems to go in cycles: attacks or robberies take place, the police increase their presence, the perp(s)apprehended and sent away for a long time, police presence declines as crime levels drop, and then the whole thing starts again a few months or years later. I wonder how much crime there'd be if everyone was armed?