Sexual Assault and Campus Security- Can Academics Learn Something New?

By Rob Morse

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- I respect education because it is better to learn from other’s mistakes than to suffer them yourself. That said, it seems particularly hard for academics to incorporate new ideas on campus. A shining example of this shortcoming is violence on campus. College administrators keep doing the same old thing as long as students keep paying to risk rape and robbery.

Let me describe the campus safety problem in unfamiliar terms.

You manage a large industrial site. People and materials come on and off the site every day. One-out-of-20 of your female employees will be sexually assaulted each year. They will be assaulted on your property as well as nearby as they move on and off your site. Your employees, your customers and your suppliers will also be robbed by fellow employees and by outside criminals who enter your property.

A 5 percent injury rate with multiple days-lost from work would shut down most private job sites. That level of injury due to criminal activity and employer negligence is simply unacceptable …Read the Rest

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