15 Worst College Crime Areas

nightchef
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:46:20 +0000

quote How is Emerson on that list, but BU and Northeastern are not? Same with Harvard and MIT?



I assume the geographical “zoom” is fairly tight. Emerson is right on Boston Common, where a lot of petty crime and occasional serious crime takes place. It’s also a few blocks from the theater district and the old Combat Zone, which is still a relatively dicey area. Even Northeastern’s surroundings are relatively low-crime by comparison, and certainly BU’s, Harvard’s and MIT’s are.

It does puzzle me that Tufts is so high on the list. I don’t think of Davis Square or Medford Hillside as high-crime areas by any stretch, but I haven’t lived around there.

re astrodeb’s point–I thought armed robbery was always classified as a violent crime whether anybody is injured or not…?