Politics & Government
An Open Letter To The University of Chicago On Crime Reporting
Opinion: The University Is Inappropriately Using Its "Guidelines" To Hide Essential Information from The Community About Crimes
For the Hyde Park Patch community of readers, here is an open letter I have written and sent this morning to Eric Heath, Associate Vice President for Safety and Security, The University of Chicago. The topic: How UChicago is embarrassing itself (once again) and diminishing its reputation by using very very little common sense for the thorough reporting of crimes on campus: it is only by reporting all crimes that the residents of Hyde Park can help the University to prevent and reduce the frequency of such crimes. This is prompted by the Chicago Maroon news story of yesterday at https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2019/4/18/first-year-student-assaulted-robbed-near-stony-isl/
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From: Sid Colton <s220@uchicago.edu>
Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 5:53 AM
Subject: The University is not displaying an intelligent common-sense ... and is hurting its reputation severely
To: Eric Heath Associate Vice President for Safety and Security <emheath@uchicago.edu>
Cc: President Robert J Zimmer <President@uchicago.edu>, Robert Mason <bmason@uchicago.edu>
Thursday April 18, 2019
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Dear Eric,
The Chicago Maroon article https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2019/4/18/first-year-student-assaulted-robbed-near-stony-isl/ , pasted below, of yesterday Wednesday April 17 2019, shows that the University of Chicago is inflicting itself with its own damage, by not having the ability to quickly amend your guidelines for when news of crime incidents is not shared with the student, staff, and faculty community in some quick manner.
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Please change your practices and guidelines so you are able to share information with the University community quickly in such instances ... especially such instances of a resident of a dormitory who is within 25 feet or so of his Stony Island Dormitory, or any other University of Chicago building. Obviously you need to adjust your definitions of all of your words "campus" and others -- so that they don't serve to too-many-times hide important information from the students, staff, faculty, and campus community.
Thank you,
Sid Colton / s220@uchicago.edu / B.A. 1989, Behavioral Science