Advice to incoming freshmen on campus safety...

[Tinia2]

Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel

Sure.
http://police.ua.edu/csr/stats.html
http://www.auburn.edu/administration...-offenses.html
http://www.police.uga.edu/crimestati...tatistics.html
http://www.utexas.edu/police/reports...estats2007.pdf
http://www.police.ufl.edu/pdf_files/2006/UFPD%20Safe%20Campus-9.pdfhttp://www.lsu.com/pubsafety/lsupoli...s?OpenDocument

From http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...8/ai_n10028294, the national rape rate is 64.8 per 100,000 people.

Alabama has 25,580 students for a rate of 11.7 per 100,000 people
Auburn has 24,137 students for a rate of 4.1 per 100,000 people
UGA has 33,831 students for a rate of 5.9 per 100,000 people.
Texas has 36,878 undergrad students for a rate of 2.7 per 100,000 people.
UF has 34,612 undergrad students for a rate of 11.6 per 100,000 people.
LSU has 33,587 students for a rate of 3.0 per 100,000 people.

There you go.

ETA: And most of these schools are lumping rape and forcible sexual assault (which is any sexual assault other than incest or statutory rape together), so it's possible I'm actually overestimating the rape rates.

Those statistics are all well and good. As far as they go as they are based on crimes that are reported.
Several of us, myself included, have already posted that we are personally aware of crimes that were never reported thus are not part of those statistics.
Not reporting, or in terms of statistics underreporting, certain types of crime is part of society in general and is not exclusive to campus life. However being part of a smaller segment may put even more pressure on someone not to say anything.
And because of both jurisdictional over lap as well as boundaries between campus and city, some crimes to students may not even be reported as such.
Read this story about University of Arkansas: http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/20...8azuacrime.txt
Bottom line would seem to be not to focus on statistics but in being proactive in awareness, prevention and protection.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel

Sure.
http://police.ua.edu/csr/stats.html
http://www.auburn.edu/administration...-offenses.html
http://www.police.uga.edu/crimestati...tatistics.html
http://www.utexas.edu/police/reports...estats2007.pdf
http://www.police.ufl.edu/pdf_files/...20Campus-9.pdf
http://www.lsu.com/pubsafety/lsupoli...s?OpenDocument

From http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...8/ai_n10028294, the national rape rate is 64.8 per 100,000 people.

Alabama has 25,580 students for a rate of 11.7 per 100,000 people
Auburn has 24,137 students for a rate of 4.1 per 100,000 people
UGA has 33,831 students for a rate of 5.9 per 100,000 people.
Texas has 36,878 undergrad students for a rate of 2.7 per 100,000 people.
UF has 34,612 undergrad students for a rate of 11.6 per 100,000 people.
LSU has 33,587 students for a rate of 3.0 per 100,000 people.

There you go.

ETA: And most of these schools are lumping rape and forcible sexual assault (which is any sexual assault other than incest or statutory rape together), so it's possible I'm actually overestimating the rape rates.

Thanks for backing up your claim. But again, like several others have stated, these represent reported crimes. I'm sure if other incidents were factored in, they would be close to (or on par) with the national average.

Originally Posted by Tinia2

Bottom line would seem to be not to focus on statistics but in being proactive in awareness, prevention and protection.

Co-sign.