Are College Students At Danger?

College Crime and Safety: Are college students at danger? Everyday day is a higher risk for college students being in a situation of a crime. School shootings have become more frequent and put students in a dangerous place instead of school being about education not of crimes. Whenever I see these types of tragedies, it makes me wonder if my college campus is safe. Getting to acknowledge more on something that could happen in the current university that I am attending and learning more on how to prevent something like this is very helpful and the information could be useful for any current students. Security, protection, education, and success should be the main things that should be provided for any student. The School system is finding ways in improving safety to drop the numbers of some types of crimes that occur in every day at schools. Police should be more involved in the look out for any that could possibly put someone on the campus community in danger. That way it would be a lot faster to stop a dangerous situation that could occur. For

“The law has improved campuses' discussions of safety, several college police chiefs say, leading to bigger security budgets and more education programs.” (Lipka). “Another common mistake is conflating violations of state law and institutional policy on alcohol and weapons. If an incident is both a campus offense and a crime, it should be counted only as the latter.” (Lipka). Both of these quotes stand out for me in what the school administrators should focus more on the security of the students. Weapons are another issue on college campus because of some students being weapons to school and many don't even know how they function correctly and puts many of the students in risk in falling into the wrong hands or be used to cause a