If you thought touro california was safe

[haf61088]

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This happened on the island where the school is located
http://abc7news.com/news/police-search-for-woman-kidnapped-for-ransom-in-vallejo/570551/

 

[deleted407021]

You could point to a single crime in any city with a med school and bring up how dangerous it therefor is. This incident was unrelated to the school and the chief of police indicated in the article that the area is typically safe with very little if any crime being reported, so......I'm sure Touro CA is just fine.

 

[Goro]

Yale is in the one highest crime areas of the country. Ditto U Chicago.

 

[Promethean]

There really is no "safe."

Every place is as safe or as dangerous as you make it. Terrible things can happen randomly to anyone, anywhere. Limiting your life to certain areas where you think that you are guaranteed safety is the best way to end up surprised and confused when you find out that real life doesn't come with guarantees.

 

[MightBeACylon439]

According to the Department of Homeland Security, terrorists could strike anytime!!!!!!!

 

[petyr_baelish]

This situation gets even worse for hospitals. A lot of the best hospitals are in absolutely terrible areas.

 

[haf61088]

I would like to add that there was some medical school students who had their home invaded and robbed at gunpoint. Several of the students cars have been stolen within the past year. There was also someone going around houses looking through the windows of female students. The reason I'm posting this is so that people who are applying to this school are aware. It is something to take into consideration.

 

[Goro]

You reminded me that this happened to a student in our lab when I was a post-doc in Cincinnati. Woke up one night to find two armed thugs in their bedroom.

I would like to add that there was some medical school students who had their home invaded and robbed at gunpoint. Several of the students cars have been stolen within the past year. There was also someone going around houses looking through the windows of female students. The reason I'm posting this is so that people who are applying to this school are aware. It is something to take into consideration.

 

[Dr. Peppa]

It wasn't even a kidnapping...

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Denise-Huskins-Vallejo-Huntington-Beach-297539661.html

 

[Dr. Peppa]

DANGER! People go on vacation to southern California! You have all been warned!

 

[Bea5T]

You could point to a single crime in any city with a med school and bring up how dangerous it therefor is. This incident was unrelated to the school and the chief of police indicated in the article that the area is typically safe with very little if any crime being reported, so......I'm sure Touro CA is just fine.

Nah, vallejo is a pretty sketchy area. The area they reference in the article is literally a small island that the touro campus is on along with a few houses

http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/vallejo/crime/

 

[Cawolf]

Haha!

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...n-orchestrated-event-not-a-kidnapping-at-all/

 

[Bea5T]

Oh but the story gets juicier

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Purported-Vallejo-kidnapper-drops-ultimatum-to-6171431.php

In earlier e-mails, including one that was 9,000 words long, the sender described the abductors as car thieves who had also committed several home burglaries on Mare Island, and had turned to kidnapping-for-ransom as a more lucrative endeavor. The e-mails, none of them signed, were written in a similar style.


The gang was made up of college-educated men with an in-depth knowledge of computers and electronics who fancied themselves Ocean’s Eleven-style “gentleman criminals,” the sender wrote in one e-mail to The Chronicle.
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The purported ringleader also claimed to be using “a multi-thousand dollar custom drone, not a kid’s toy,” with a thermal imaging camera, to help in the crimes. In Tuesday’s e-mail, the sender stressed that the drone was “not weaponized,” and said that in general “something should be done about drones” and they “ought to be regulated.”
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In Tuesday’s message, the sender offered to surrender if the other purported kidnappers were given immunity from prosecution. An alternative plan, the sender wrote, would be to “go overseas and teach English,” or perhaps to “live off the grid and read books for the rest of my life.”

“For what it’s worth, what could have ended up as a prolific and dangerous criminal group has disbanded,” the sender wrote. “And you have Denise Huskins to thank for that.”


...Justice served...I think?

 

[pharamacy_yo]

Mare Island might be tolerable but Vallejo is really really bad and unsafe.

 

[NontradCA]

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