Campus Crimes: Bicycles, Alcohol and ... Arson??

It's like Googlemaps....but with crime scenes...Ever feel like there should be a Dateline NBC program about Princeton going-ons? CSI Princeton.  Criminal Minds: Princeton Edition. NYPD ... Princeton ...Ehh, maybe not.But if you find yourself curious about crimes around our university, check out ucrime.com/nj/princeton+university.UCrime.com (which is kind of a funny name ... UCrime.  You crime.  You!  Commit crime!) compiles crime data from universities across the country, and each category of crime--from arson to shootings to vandalism--is graphed on a map of the university campus with adorable themed icons.Icon characters include Graffiti-Can-That-Looks-Remarkably-Like-Pepper-Spray for vandalism, Money Bags for theft and Man in Trenchcoat for robbery.  I wonder if they have names.Princeton crimes seem to be pretty ordinary: fewer trench coats, more money bags.  There is some bicycle theft here, some underaged drinking there.  However, there's one true gem of campus crime that will never cease to amaze.See, when Prometheus came to Earth with fire from Mount Olympus, he must have stopped in Princeton seeing as our lovely school has clinched the "Most Arson Award" in the Ivy League three times in three years.  The last incident occurred on October 9th, 2010 in Frist Campus Center.Wait, what?image source: http://ucrime.com/nj/princeton+university

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