University of Minnesota Students Are Shocked to Discover that They Live in The Real World™

They apparently thought that U of M was in Mayberry, and not Minneapolis. 5 years after COVID-19, Dinkytown crime takes its toll on University of Minnesota students who live, study there

This is a typical, "Oh my God, there's crime in the world" story, as told (mostly) from the point of view of university students.

Still, the level of cope is turned up to 11, from both the students and the helicoptering parents.

Runkel, along with other parents, students and community members, created a Facebook group in 2022 aimed at keeping students safe. The page has more than 2,600 members.

Information is always good, though I seriously question how many university students are using F*c*book more than to contact their parents for more spending money.

But a F*c*book group, no matter how apolitical, no matter how update-to-date, is not going to keep you safe. But that is the level of cope in a Deep Blue state, in a Deep Blue city, at a Left-of-Chairman Mao university.

Armed self-defense? Pepper spray? Bueller?

There is a section of article dedicated to getting more help from police, and having the university police pick up some of the slack from the city in the surrounding neighborhoods. Minneapolis was ground zero for the Defund the Police movement, after all.

Notably absent is any call for harsher penalties for criminals, letting legal-adult students defend themselves, though to be fair I don't know what the situation in Minnesotta/Minneapolis is with respect to concealed carry on campus. I know what my guess is.