<p>Even if you think Charles Village in the vicinity of the campus is unsafe, you have to consider the comparable schools that a student going to JHU might otherwise attend. Columbia, Chicago, Brown and Penn are all in bad neighborhoods as well. Others are close enough to tough communities that opportunistic criminals are naturally going to take advantage of students. Berkeley, Yale, MIT, Northwestern and Harvard definitely fall into this category. So unless you have a slot at Stanford / Princeton or go off to Cornell, Williams or Dartmouth, you are going to face urban crime statistics. Such is life.</p>
<p>On a micro level though, if your wallet was stolen in the gym, it likely got ripped off by a student given the gym is not open to the public (I caught a student stealing my jacket, “dude, it was just like sitting here, I thought someone didn’t want it”). That is not really the kind of violent crime that any university can police. It is just common sense not to leave valuables unattended. No case officer would waste time trying to recover it.</p>