<3 The U-StoreRemember when you visited Yale? The Gothic architecture (not as nice as here, of course) made you wonder if you hadn’t received your Hogwarts owl after all, just a few years late.
Except then you peeked beyond the iron gates, remembered you were in America’s fourth most dangerous city, and chose our quiet suburban idyll instead.
Based on Public Safety’s 2011 Annual Security Report, you probably made the right choice. Campus crime is the lowest it’s been in a decade, although forcible sexual offenses rose from 11 to 13, arsons went from 3 to 5 (if setting posters on fire counts as arson), and there was an aggravated sexual assault.
But if you want a closer look into the Orange Bubble’s seedy underbelly, skip the report and head straight for the daily crime log. That’s right, you can go to their website and see all the criminal activity reported on campus on this handy calendar, each and every day all the way back to 2006.
But since clicking on each individual day is kind of a pain (especially since literally nothing happened most days) we put together a map showing all 37 incidents reported for the month of September.
View Princeton September Crime Map in a larger map
During summer, when there are no parties to break, or drunk students to catch urinating, what exactly does PSafe do? Catch criminals, that’s what. In this week’s edition: Water guns? Public lewdness? Princeton quickly becomes the next possible locale of a CSI spin-off. Meanwhile, The New Yorker is all like, “You guys were so right about the Kindle thing,” and coincidentally “the Kindle ate my homework” becomes a viable excuse. Also, oh my God!, the Princeton Review made lists of colleges and people freak out about them.