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Colleges See Street-Like Incidents of Black-on-Black Violence

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Many African American parents fear that the same violence they worry will affect their young adult children on the streets at home will find them in their quest for higher education. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 93 percent of the 9,000 blacks murdered in 2007, were killed by other blacks. Blacks are six times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than whites and eight times more likely to be the perpetrator, the report said.

Though college campuses don’t have the same level of violence as urban streets, some of the same kinds of crimes occur there, experts said—shootings, stabbings and assaults as a result of senseless disagreements and perceived slights. Even some students who are high academic achievers resort to street behavior when faced with a conflict at college, experts said.

Woman Spills Substance in IUPUI Library, Prompting Evacuation

Indianapolis, IN
The library on the IUPUI campus was evacuated Tuesday and a woman was taken into custody after police say she dumped a flammable liquid in the building.

The bomb squad was doing a sweep of the building as a precaution, and officials anticipated the library would be closed until at least 3:30 p.m.

Officials said the woman had two containers the size of water bottles filled with a substance that smelled like gasoline or another flammable substance. She spilled it inside the building and was taken into custody. It wasn’t clear whether she was a student.

Campus Crime Statistics

I received this via email today, took a quick look, and thought I would pass it on.

Crime Informatics

It's from a site called onlinecolleges.net

If correct, there are some interesting statistics at the above link.