In a message dated 2/1/2007 2:36:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I might not be getting all the literature, but I can't think of a single _specific_ crime that has ever been mentioned by UCD apart from the announcement that they were improving the soil along the Vladimir Sled Memorial beds in Clark Park. I believe what she was referring to was things like the $5 MM program (funded by Penn but with UCD all over it) to put in new streetlights as an over-reaction to a few street crimes right adjacent to campus. A misguided bit of propaganda, it turns out, because -- as the head of the University's own Center for Criminology (Lawrence Sherman) pointed out in a published study a few years back, evidence is strong that lighting has an effect on the perception of safety but is lacking on whether it actually deters crime (that is, some studies suggest that it does, others suggest that it doesn't, and a few even suggest that it may serve a facilitating rather than a debilitating role). What UCD does is jump on instances of crime opportunistically to tout its banal, expensive, and somewhat unfounded "safe streets" activities. Al Krigman Left of Ivan Grozny ®
