Yeah, I realize that major cities don’t provide public safety for multiple reasons (PC, politics, cost, lack of will, lack of ability). I’m not talking about a general cleanup. The same kid arrested for murdering the girl had recently chased a younger girl into a store, knocked her down, and kicked her crap out of her. The store clerk called police, and provided pics. If bothering to make an easy arrest on a specific crime with a clear third party description and even pics of someone known in the area is outside the “rules of engagement”, what is inside the rules? I also realize that police cannot stop courts from turning felons loose in five minutes.
I agree that the victim’s parents should not have sent their child to one of America’s worst “no go” areas, even if that meant her not attending the college of her choice. If enough parents boycotted unsafe inner City colleges (and many highly ranked universities are surrounded by high crime areas), perhaps the colleges would close or move. Charlottesville has its own predator problem abetted by PC government, but the girl’s parents probably could not conceive the scale of danger in NYC.
I don’t agree that Columbia / Bernard are that dangerous. This story made big news. It is not like a high percentage of students there get killed. There are other schools worse in the hood, like Georgia Tech and Johns Hopkins Medical School.