To be fair, things have never been boring at FSC to say the least. Since I have arrived, the following has happened:
1. The science building has caught on fire. I saw the flames from my window.
2. A bank robber being chased by cops crashed into my best friend's car just outside of campus. He proceeded to run and hide in and around campus with a gun. I was in class at the time and people continued to message me and I heard helicopters flying up above. I thought of telling my professor but I didn't know what to say.
3. I saw a car burglary outside my own window.
4. There were two domestic abuse murders this year. (I will not go into detail out of respect for the friends and families. My heart goes out to those involved)
5. I have witnessed two windows shatter, both by bricks being thrown. The second almost hit me-- or it felt that way at least.
6. An eight year old tried to steal my Ipod while I was walking to work. That's really not okay.
7. A night that a murderer was on the loose, my friend and I called for an escort. A campus police officer
showed up on a bike. He rode behind us, with a spotlight shining. Needless to say, I did not feel safe. I would've preferred a nice bullet proof car, but whatever.
The list could go on. So I guess a lot happens here. I still wouldn't consider this school is top 25 material. I would like to see the reasoning behind their results.
The biggest problem is that crimes aren't truly exclusive anywhere; it's more of a wrong place, wrong time deal. More crimes may happen on campuses, because campuses tend to be in highly populated areas--more people, more crimes.
So I ask all my readers, wherever you are:
Please take measures of safety. Take escorts at night. Lock your door when you leave. If you're having an issue with any sort of abuse, tell someone. And...you know...when you're driving watch out for crazy car chases that involve bank robbers.
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I can't speak for Fitchburg, my my school's police officers are awful. A friend of mine was being sexually harassed (as in, legitimate threats of rape) by a forty-something year old drunk man who had gotten into our dorm, and it took the university police forty-five minutes to get to the scene. During this time, the intruder also attempted (repeatedly) to assault an R.A.
Worth nothing is the fact that the police were stationed in the basement of the dorm that this was all happening in. They literally only needed to walk up two flights of stairs.
Also, their alleged "constant patrols of campus" (I have yet to see any of them anywhere other than the cafeteria and/or sitting in a car somewhere doing nothing) have managed to miss two of my friends being robbed at gunpoint and a student with disabilities getting beaten with bottles in the middle of campus. And then there was the guy who got fired for downloading child porn on his work computer... what's he doing now... oh, right he got rehired.
Really, the only thing that gets a half decent response out of them seems to be a bunch of 18/19/20-year olds drinking crappy beer.
TL,DR: Be safe, don't take chances, don't rely on cops to save you.
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