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On Halloween night 2004, a group of about 50 teenagers traveled along Bayard Lane and Hodge Road in Princeton Borough, beating up children who were trick-or-treating and flashing gang signs to police officers, the Town Topics reported ...
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Millions for eating club crackdowns, but not one cent for anti-gang policing!
The most serious of these events seem to be occurring in Trenton. Violence is tragic no matter where it occurs but doesn't calling this Princeton's "history of violence" grossly mischaracterize the actual situation? All I can say is I feel safe.
And Public Safety police officers are still not equipped properly. What will it take for Nassau Hall to wake up to the reality that we are courting disaster by not having armed police?
How come your gang expert has no published work (media or academic) on gangs? Perhaps your source is as sensationalist as this article.
I'm sure BoPo spends money on anti-gang policing as well. They have to protect undergrads from the outside world as well as from themselves.
Rachael knows everything!!
Your article forgot to mention that Jean Israel was also a university employee. He worked inside the dormitories. It was several years ago, but rumor was he had his university paystub on him when he was found murdered and that's how they identified him.
So this "plague" involves one incident in 2004, gun shots last year, and a couple fights in between? And let's not forget the armed robbery that happened only 10 years ago. The article points out that Trenton has crime; don't forget that slums in Newark, Philly and Baltimore are only a train ride away, nothing prevents gangs from those cities coming up here to stage an all-out war!
Forget arming them with guns, clearly the only way to prevent a plague of Black Death proportions is to have Public Safety impose martial law on campus.
...or maybe we could all just grow up and stop overreacting.
The propensity of students who live in the lap of luxury and who predominately attended private schools to understand the danger posed by gangs is astounding.
I grew up in rural PA, so, no, I can't say I understand gang violence. Most of this campus can't either. Some kids grew up in such areas, and as such, they might have something to offer regarding the potential danger.
Everyone else needs to stop acting like this is part of some larger ideological fight--i.e., whether or not P-Safe ought to have guns.
Realizing that the world is a big place, and that you no longer have your security blanket, might also help.
Oh yeah, and I vote for putting your name on comments; that's about the one thing I give Scharf credit for in this thread. (Guns for P-Safe, really? Are we that scared of the big bad wolf?)
Right on with the signing comments issue, Jordan. And yes, I side strongly with Princetonians for a Safer Campus. The P. Safety gun issue is a simple one: the administration has already recognized that we have a crime problem on campus. That's why there's been the transition from coat-and-tied proctors to fully-sworn, academy-trained police officers in the last decade. I think it's only logical that, now that that determination has been made, we give those police officers the same equipment they would have anywhere else. Frankly, the likelihood of those guns ever being fired in anger is probably pretty small, but that doesn't mean that they are unnecessary.