@JHS With due respect, I am not trying to heighten up any security concern. I would be the first one to say Hyde Park is safe (with the usual qualifications). Indeed I was there yesterday and I was not worried about my security at any time. I did also point out in the preface of my write up that this is purely for prospective students and parents as well as prefosh students and parents. Just like an onion, security in HP comes in layers. I am just trying to highlight that.
I do agree (from family friends I talk to and my experience) no one “is living in fear”. In fact, if you read from the social justice warriors on the Maroon staff, there is certainly an opinion that U of C students are living in an over-protective bubble and are too isolated from the urban blight in Washington Park or worse, Englewood (which has one of the highest murder rate in Chicago and is less than 2 miles from the campus)…