<p>Rash of burglaries prompts police investigation</p>
<p>The Washington University Police Department is investigating several burglaries which struck suites in the Hurd, Hitzeman and Myers complex over winter break. The police believe that burglars entered the suites through exterior balcony doors at some time between December 21 and December 28 when the residence halls were largely empty.</p>
<p>…scary…</p>
<p>well, Saint Louis IS the number one most dangerous city</p>
<p>I don’t if it’s too smart for a burglar to rob a college dorm during break. there’s nothing there, right? people take their laptops and ipods home with them.</p>
<p>Old dorms have balconies, and most break-ins occur there. Students don’t take home consoles or TVs, neither monitors, printers, movies nor games; some of them don’t even take home their laptops.</p>
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And some probably don’t lock their balconies, most likely.</p>
<p>JohnC613, WashU and the surrounding suburban area is actually quite safe and has relatively low crime rates. As has been explained in other threads, WashU is in a beautiful suburb of St. Louis. The city of St. Louis gets a bad rap for crime as a result of an unusual old legal definition of the city’s environs which defines the city very narrowly to the worst sections of the city. If you were to include what would be considered boroughs of the city, as most cities do, St. Louis’s crime rates would be considerably lower and way down on the list of dangerous cities.</p>
<p>I don’t want to start a long discussion of crime rates here, but simply want to clarify this for anyone considering WashU who might be concerned about this issue.</p>
<p>nervoius1 is correct - see information below regarding flawed crime study and letter from the chancellor
[Record:</a> St. Louis crime survey flawed](<a href=“The Record - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis”>The Record - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis)</p>