UC-Berkeley Student Carjacked in Front of Fraternity
“There have been at least 16 carjackings in the crime-ridden college town year to date – a benchmark that has already outpaced prior years.”
It’s amazing how much crime has increased on or near college campuses in recent years.
FOX News reports:
UC Berkeley student carjacked at gunpoint as crime surge plagues college town
A University of California Berkeley student was carjacked at gunpoint outside a fraternity two days before the start of the fall semester, according to police.
Three men with a gun allegedly ambushed the student at 10:50 p.m. Monday on Channing Way between College and Piedmont Avenues and fled with a black 2021 Toyota Corolla.
UC Berkeley, which is about 15 miles east of San Francisco, is the top-ranked public school in the country, tied with UCLA, according to the most recent college rankings from U.S. News and World Report.
Earlier in the day, the University of California Police Department warned students and staff of an attempted carjacking with a pistol and screwdriver on campus in a parking lot behind Cal Memorial Stadium, according to local news site Berkeley Scanner.
Two people were sitting in a parked car when the assailant allegedly tried to break their car window with a screwdriver, according to a police report obtained by the outlet.
The victims threw the car in reverse and took off. There have been at least 16 carjackings in the crime-ridden college town year to date – a benchmark that has already outpaced prior years.
The city typically averages about 14 carjackings a year, according to the Berkeley Police Department.
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Oh, it’s Berkeley. NVM.
You get what your parents vote for.
UC Berkeley… is the top-ranked public school in the country, tied with UCLA
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
It doesn’t mean they deserved it and you have no clue how the parents voted.
I didn’t say they deserved it, just that they got the end results of what their parents voted for.
And what conservative sends their kids to Berkeley?
Depends on the course of study. Were I of college age, and knew where I would end up in my career path, I’d GLADLY attend Berkeley because of the lighting research going on there, or Renselaer Institute, or at whichever U of Colorado branch David Di Laura taught.
In short, one makes choices based on courses of study. Except for a few like Hillsdale, one will encounter left wing nonsense no matter where one goes. Berkeley is, at bottom, a remarkable school if one is in a major where they excel. I am led to understand that the law school is very good. It doesn’t have the cachet of Haahvahd or Yale, but so what?
I’m a daily concealed carrier. No one will successfully carjack me.
If you’re in California, they will successfully prosecute you, though.
Trying to remember which movie it was where a naive freshman coed arriving at college gets nonviolently carjacked by a huckster wearing a parking valet uniform.
Maybe the carjacker just needed a car to get to work. That’s what the Berkeley profs would tell you, anyway.
A better description is “UC Berkeley is located next to Oakland, CA.” I doubt that the likely perps drove over the Bridge to steal a car.