Here we go again, unfortunately. This incident follows two others near Grounds a few weeks back and continues a trend that has continued since last semester. While City Council members might think they are in charge of a bustling, modern metropolis, Charlottesville is damn small and very residential.
Police seem able enough to arrest football players who steal folding chairs.
There seems to be a serious lack of communication between the administration, University and city police officials about prevention programs. First-year students, and all students for that matter, are horribly mislead by the city's crime statistics, which don't paint an accurate picture of the city's dangers. Nor do they take into account the threat of date rape. The University, University police officials and Charlottesville authorities simply assume that the other is doing each other's job when it comes it educating women as to the dangers of living in a city, no matter how small. Charlottesville isn't New York, but it isn't Disneyland either, and somebody has to take charge.