Student voices
“You get the emails and crime alerts [and] keep a mental note of these alerts”' Stanford sophomore Matt Villaysack said, when asked how he found out about campus crime. Villaysack isn’t the only student who resonated with the disorganized method of campus safety information.
Stanford undergrad Ashna Khetan mentioned a similar method of staying up to date: “the alert thing that happens with our email, and if I miss it then I see it on Fizz,” a college community discussion app. For larger scale crimes, Khetan says “we hear about it for a few days.”
Other undergrads recognize that hearing about crime through email alerts keeps incidents and their updates under the radar.
“It can be harmful when people aren’t informed, especially on sexual violence reports that go unacknowledged.”
says Lexi Kupor, another Stanford sophomore. Villaysack agreed with this sentiment, and voiced that as a student living on campus,
“It would be useful to see what crimes are likely to happen.”
After seeing Campus Crimewatch, he shared his thoughts on how it provides an encompassing overview of campus crime:
“It's interesting to look at and be aware of, especially if you’re going out for parties and want to know what areas are safe on campus to walk around.”