<p>I have not been to Cambridge since 2005, but back then, the area between Harvard and MIT looked pretty dodgy to me.</p>
<p>I apologize for using the word “sketchy” but there are high crime areas within walking distance of Harvard. Harvard Square is nice though, albeit touristy.</p>
<p>East Palo Alto is known to have significant gang activity. One of many examples:
[FBI</a> Raid on East Palo Alto Street Gang | NBC Bay Area](<a href=“News – NBC Bay Area”>FBI Raid on East Palo Alto Street Gang – NBC Bay Area)</p>
<p>east palo alto’s effect on palo alto or Stanford is zero. Stanford has got to be one of the safest campuses and neighborhoods in the country…except for when Sean Parker is creeping around the girls dorms:)</p>
<p>neighborhood around usc is way better now, and getting better monthly as downtown development heads closer. and usc campus police are first responders to calls near campus, they’ll go in before lapd, they’re the real deal</p>
<p>I agree regarding East Palo Alto. It’s far enough that it doesn’t really affect Stanford. Stanford is an enclosed campus surrounded by the wealthy suburb of Palo Alto.</p>
<p>University of Minnesota in a bad neighborhood, you’re kidding, right?</p>
<p>As someone who lives in Minneapolis, this is an untruth. The city as a whole may have 30-40 murders a year that 90% happen 10-15 miles AWAY from anywhere near that campus. 50K attend that school & they host one of the best security forces of all the Midwest Big 10 campuses. </p>
<p>The housing is PRIME in the 2 miles surrounding the campus.</p>
<p><a href=“Campus Safety and Security”>Campus Safety and Security;
<p>The above link is to official crime data reported by each college to the Federal Government. This reporting is required by the Cleary Act, in memory of a Lehigh U. student who was murdered in her dorm by a fellow student.</p>
<p>There may be different interpretations of what is a “campus.” For example, one liberal arts college shows a high number of burglaries, but that is because the college owns many off-campus houses that are rented to students. Another college that has less housing for students may show an artificially low crime rate, because their students live in private housing where the crime is not reported.</p>
<p>Some colleges may be more accurate in reporting crime on border streets than others. Some colleges may show more arrests because their campus police are more aggressive.</p>
<p>This data does not show how bad the surrounding neighborhood is. The FBI compiles crime data by municipality, which is available on their website, and many cities report crime by neighborhood. </p>
<p>The number of burglaries often vary greatly from year to year, because one person is often responsible for large numbers of them. After he is caught, the numbers decline.</p>
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<p>I think the areas to the west of the campus have some, dare I say, sketchy areas to them. NU is a campus that you could have very different opinions on the surroundings depending upon the direction from which you approach it. From the south: Great little downtown with everything a college student might want. From the north: Wow, middle of upscale suburbia, look at those mansions. From the west: Eh, not all that impressive and rather off-putting.</p>
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<p>That is a very odd statement.</p>
<p>^ What I meant by that is that Harvard has institutions in place that encourage victims to report the crime. Also, Harvard’s feminist culture, if you will, helps dispel the s***-shaming and misogyny that often deters women from reporting a rape.</p>
<p>This past fall, three Harvard freshman were held up at gunpoint in Harvard Square, a non-student shot himself to death on the steps of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard, two years ago, a non-student was shot to death inside a Harvard residence by a rival drug dealer (He was delivering drugs to a Harvard student). Crime can happen anywhere.</p>