<p>I’m not sure if I buy that to be honest. Most of Chicago’s violence is concentrated pretty much where the college is.</p>
<p>The second to last episode of Vice (the one before the visit to North Korea) featured the gang violence on the South Side and it mentioned that Chicago is one of the few cities in america with rising crime over the last couple of decades, and that the local street gangs refer to the failed neighborhoods in the area and the territory therof which each of them claim for themselves as ‘Chiraq.’</p>
<p>UChicago hires one of the largest private police forces for a reason.
On the other hand, UCPD is one of the largest private police forces and they’re good at their job. Going to the college isn’t nearly as dangerous as growing up black in the surrounding neighborhoods but it’s not completely safe, either.</p>