The Problem Of High Crime Rate - 962 Words

From a lot of our class discussions, as well as interactions from with other students on campus I feel that a prevalent issue both to our school, and citizens of the downtown Tampa area in general is safety. As students on campus we receive almost weekly emails from the school’s security department informing us somebody, usually a student, getting robbed or accosted in some way by an unknown person and that police are investigating. Rarely do we get emails saying the person was caught, this has lead to some students to begin to feel unsafe in the areas around campus. So the issue is how to lower crime rate in the area, and increase the safeness for citizens and for students in particular. The first step in addressing this problem is figuring out what is happening. The first thing would be to look up the crime reports from both the university security and Tampa police department in the areas surrounding the school. 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