How safe is UMCP ?

bulletandpima
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:19:11 +0000

Montgomery county is not the safest county in MD. As for the Realtor, as a realtor I can tell you we are not allowed by law to discuss this, all we can do is to inform you of websites to visit and allow you to do your own investigation. If we did it would be called REDLINING and we could lose our licenses.

Honestly, one statement struck out to me

Though I personally liked UMBC for its smaller campus and class size



That leaves me to believe that you want her to go to UMBC and this is a reason to sway her decision.

Let’s be honest, we all as parents feel the same way. You are not re-inventing the wheel. We are all saying you are blowing this out of proportion regarding crime at UMDCP.

Again, look at the reports, several of them were off campus, and 90% occurred between 11:45 p.m. and 4 a.m. If your child is walking around between midnight and 4 a.m. in Baltimore by herself she wouldn’t be safe either.

You are her parent and we get the fear, but at this point I think you have made your decision about UMDCP and safety regardless of what anyone here will say.

OBTW, our DS is 5’10 and 145 lbs…he would be prime picking. Yet, he has been fine for 3 yrs. He also is savvy and when he is on campus at night ~has a class that ends at 9, and then rides his bike home off campus~he calls us on his cell the entire time of the ride, thus, he reduces his risk of being accosted.

Our DD at VT does the exact same thing when walking back from her job at 8 p.m. to her dorm.

Perpetrators don’t like to attack someone on the phone talking to somebody. Common sense needs to be applied no matter where you are.

I must say, because I am a woman, I am very in tuned to my surroundings. Keys are always in my hand with the key pointed out so I can use it as a weapon against an attacker. My car is always parked under a light, and I look in the back to make sure nobody is in the car before I enter it. Men rarely think like this when they are walking alone to a car in a parking lot or entering a building.