UCLA officials are disputing an article published by a business news website last week that listed UCLA as the most dangerous university in the country.
The website, Business Insider, compiled its listings based on an FBI compilation of crime statistics in universities and colleges, according to the article entitled “The 25 Most Dangerous Colleges In America.”
The site looked at colleges and universities with more than 10,000 students. For each school, the site averaged the per capita crime data from 2008 to 2011.
A final list of the 25 schools the site deemed the most dangerous included three University of California schools, one of which was UCLA.
UCLA officials released a statement Wednesday objecting to the site’s analysis of the FBI’s statistics.
According to the statement, the Business Insider article included all crimes reported to university police, including off-campus reports, reports outside of the Westwood area and crimes from UCLA’s hospital systems, which are spread all over Los Angeles County.
The added figures mistakenly inflated UCLA’s crime statistics by including crimes that might not be connected to the UCLA campus, according to the statement.
The site placed four times more emphasis on violent crimes, such as murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault, than on property crimes, such as burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson, when compiling the rankings, according to the article.
In the FBI data from 2011, there were 40 violent crimes reported for UCLA, and more than 800 property crimes. Among the violent crimes, 12 forcible rapes, 11 robberies and 17 aggravated assaults were reported.
Officials from UC Riverside, which was ranked the 24th most dangerous university, also released a statement criticizing what they called the article’s “intentionally inflammatory headline.”
Both UC Riverside and UCLA pointed to the Clery Act reports, crime statistics for universities released annually by university police, as a more accurate source of crime data.
Any campus that has UCPD pigs on it is dangerous–in that either they’ll hike your fees until you’re forced into poverty and over the debt cliff, or, if you fight back at all, you get pepper-sprayed with military-grade bear-mace, or clubbed until you have a miscarriage, or dragged by your handcuffs you did nothing to earn until you get permanent nerve damage, or shot at with rubber bullets and mace-rounds, or tazed repeatedly, or kidnapped, or threatened with a DHS BEARCAT Tank, etc etc etc.
Cops off campus.
yes the police are
fascinating
okay now talk about a time when there isn’t a once-every-few-years strike going on.
the police are quick to judge and cause trouble.
Forcible Rape? Are we still on this?
My daughter graduated in June. She found the campus to be quite safe. She lived for two years in the North Village on Midvale. She did not always feel safe walking alone at night in that neighborhood. And yes, there are frequent assaults and robberies in that area. Really no police presence there at all, which is unfortunate. But, overall, UCLA is a very safe college campus! It’s in Los Angeles, what do you expect??!! Oh, and where the heck is USC on that list!!!???? They had a shooting ON CAMPUS a few weeks ago! Much more unsafe overall than UCLA historically.
The study only studied public colleges, so USC was not included
To Corinne, statistically and historically speaking, UCLA has a larger crime problem than USC’s ..