Critics proceed to fault St. Joseph’s College on crime, even after the college has boosted safety, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Aggravated assaults, robberies with a firearm and thefts have elevated close to its foremost campus, and at the next charge than within the metropolis as a complete, in line with an evaluation of police knowledge.
Tommy McBride was scheduled to function a coordinator at freshman orientation. He didn’t serve as a result of he was shot by two males in ski masks.
He spent 12 weeks on crutches and remains to be ready for an additional surgical procedure. He and his roommates left their home close to campus. “All of us determined it was not protected bodily and mentally to dwell there anymore,” he mentioned, “particularly with that not being the one incident of gun violence and crime” within the neighborhood. Different college students have left the college.
“Lots of you’ve heard out of your kids or by means of our security alert notifications that there was a sample of robberies and tried robberies in latest weeks,” Cheryl A. McConnell, St. Joseph’s interim president, wrote to folks final month. “We’ve got been very lucky that none of our college students have sustained life-threatening accidents, however these incidents are extremely troubling.”