<p>The crime rate is higher in New Haven than it is in Cambridge and Providence: this year, last year and for many years. </p>
<p>I understand that Yale is very sensitive on this point, and is trying hard - with mixed success - to change New Haven’s “image”. This is understandable, and very appropriate.</p>
<p>What is NOT appropriate is your continued effort to dodge the truth and try to rationalize it away.</p>
<p>Look - do all the bragging you want, and struggle to discover as many areas as you can where “Yale is better than Harvard” if it is so important to you</p>
<p>But just don’t think you can get away with telling lies - big one or little ones - about the crime rate or anything else.</p>