This is how safe we are in Cambridge

[aig1]

Crime Alert to the MIT Community
Issued: September 17, 2007

On Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 8:00 a.m., the Cambridge Police
Department notified the MIT Police Department that a woman reported that
she had been sexually assaulted on the MIT campus at 3:45 a.m. in the
Amherst Street area of Kendall Square.

SUSPECTS:
The victim described her assailants as 5 or 6 neatly dressed white males
in their early 20's who held her down during the assault.

REPORT INFORMATION TO:
If you have information that might be helpful in this investigation,
please contact:
1. Detective John Boyle, 617-349-3369, of the Cambridge Police
Department, 5 Western Ave.; or
2. the MIT Police at 617-253-1212; W89, 301 Vassar Street; or
3. anonymously at 617-258-TIPS (8-8477).

SUGGESTIONS:
All members of the MIT community are asked to be alert and take
precautions. To minimize the opportunity for such incidents, the MIT
Police Department reminds community members to be vigilant while walking
throughout campus and surrounding areas both during the day and at night
and to take the appropriate precautions, such as walking with others and
utilizing the Safe Ride whenever possible.

Remain alert to your immediate surroundings while talking on a cell
phone or listing to music.

Anyone on campus should call the MIT Police Department at 617-253-1212,
utilize a blue light emergency telephone, or dial 100 from an Institute
telephone if they feel they are in danger at any time.

Please forward this notice to your colleagues and post it on appropriate
bulletin boards in your area.

And Cambridge does not issue LTCA/ALP because..............
And we cannot carry in college because.................

There was another incident last year where at girl was raped in the underground tunnels of MIT at 5pm by two guys!

I wish my wife could carry!

I have no words!!!!!

AIG

 

[crak]

 

[Underwhere]

Hmmm. My sister needs pepper spray.

 

[lemonlime571]

Sometimes you have to do what is best for your own safety...... Right or wrong, Its your LIFE!!!

 

[pdm]

Victims cry for more laws. More laws give politicians more power. Politicians pass ineffective laws that create more victims. Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[Jose]

Sometimes you have to do what is best for your own safety...... Right or wrong, Its your LIFE!!!

+1

ALWAYS have a gun in a high crime area. Be alive to deal with the legalities. But above all be alive.

 

[calsdad]

The proper thing to do is submit that way they won't hurt you. Hand over your wallent - and give them the PIN numbers for the credit cards. Give your keys - along with directions to your house so they don't get lost. Make sure to call ahead and alert your family that they should put on their work clothes because men will be showing up soon with a van to take all of their possesions away - please help them load it up - because we don't want any problems. Tell your 12 year old daughter to go with the big bad men - because she is a woman now, she'll get used to it.

If you do all these things - everything will be ok.

 

[fubar]

Well , there's no way a woman can defend herself from 6 neatly dressed white guys anyway.

Oh. Wait. yeah there is : a handgun. i think it is a better alternative than the official position of MIT police " The night belongs to the predators so don't go out."

 

[aig1]

The proper thing to do is submit that way they won't hurt you. Hand over your wallent - and give them the PIN numbers for the credit cards. Give your keys - along with directions to your house so they don't get lost. Make sure to call ahead and alert your family that they should put on their work clothes because men will be showing up soon with a van to take all of their possesions away - please help them load it up - because we don't want any problems. Tell your 12 year old daughter to go with the big bad men - because she is a woman now, she'll get used to it.

If you do all these things - everything will be ok.

That reads like the pamphlet I got from the police when I got on campus .

They kind of missed the "Refuse to be a Victim" part, and went straight to "this is how to be a more cooperative victim".

I ought to write a letter to our dear MIT president.

AIG