“A string of brazen and violent crimes around the University of Minnesota has escalated campus fears, with students asking for more security and U officials taking the unusual step of asking the city to send additional police into the area,” the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports.
The crimes are happening about as often as they have for the past few years, but the nature and circumstances of some incidents, including a rape near a park and the armed robbery of a student inside a classroom building, have set the U community on edge. … Last week, a student-initiated online petition asking for a larger police presence drew more than 3,000 signatures. …
The U typically sees an uptick in violent crime every fall, but this year has also brought some vicious assaults. Two rapes, including one by a man who posed as a police officer, and numerous robberies in which a gun was shown have been among the high-profile crimes. …
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