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Picturesque college town in the Rockies is one of America’s most dangerous: study
Students at the University of Colorado are in for some rocky news.
Boulder, the beautiful college town the CU calls home, is one of the most dangerous in America, according to a new study.
One the other hand, the Gators aren’t as perilous as they look. Gainesville, home of the University of Florida, is one of the safest college towns.
The study from Lesson Maker Pro evaluated 174 college towns — big and small — across seven safety metrics, tracking crimes from Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) violations and hate crimes to robberies and aggravated assaults.
Researchers culled data from the US Department of Education’s Campus Safety and Security Database and calculated crime rates per 10,000 students to determine which campuses are setting the standard for student safety — and which ones fall alarmingly short.
The most dangerous college town in America, according to the results, is Shreveport, Louisiana — home to Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, which reported 788 violent crimes per 100,000 students in 2024.
But Boulder, Colorado, was the runner-up. The University of Colorado, Boulder recorded the second-highest total rapes nationwide in 2024, with 96 rapes, according to data.
Nearly one-in-five women at CU-Boulder reported being sexually assaulted since arriving on campus, according to a 2024 survey — an increase from 15% in 2021, according to The Colorado Sun.
Safest college towns
- Dallas: Southern Methodist University; University of Texas, Dallas; University of Dallas
- Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida
- Logan, Utah: Utah State University
- Troy, New York: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Fresno, California: California State University, Fresno
- San Bernardino: California State University, San Bernardino
- Orem, Utah: Utah Valley University
- Santa Rosa, California: University of San Francisco, Santa Rosa
- Tallahassee: Florida State University
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Winston-Salem State University; North Carolina School of the Arts
On the flip side, Dallas was the safest city for college students, earning a near-perfect safety score of 0.11 across its nine higher-education institutions, led by Southern Methodist University (SMU).
Dallas reported exceptionally low crime figures, including just 0.38 VAWA incidents and 0.05 disciplinary actions per 10,000 students.
Robberies, aggravated assaults, and sex offenses each stood at an extraordinarily low 0.04, alongside 0.63 campus arrests. Zero campus fires or hate crimes were recorded in the study’s dataset.
Gainesville, Florida, finished as a close second with a safety score of 0.16. Across all categories, the number of incidents per 10,000 students remained below one.
The city is home to Florida’s flagship public university, which is ranked 21st among public universities nationally.
Despite their relatively high safety statistics, a University of Florida student is being barred from enteringall UF properties after he was arrested on a charge of sexual battery on Oct. 14.
Least safe college towns
- Shreveport, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
- Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Langston, Oklahoma: Langston University
- Petersburg, Virginia: Virginia State University
- Swainsboro, Georgia: Georgia Southern University
- Newport News, Virginia: Christopher Newport University
- Olympia, Washington: Evergreen State College
- Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara
- Orangeburg, South Carolina: South Carolina State University
- Cedar Falls, Iowa: University of Northern Iowa
Another college town on the most dangerous list is Langston, Oklahoma — ranked third among the most dangerous college towns, logging high rates of disciplinary actions and robberies.
Last year, Langston University’s homecoming weekend was disrupted by gunfire when an isolated shooting on campus left a visitor injured, highlighting ongoing security concerns in the area.
Petersburg, Virginia was also near the bottom.
Five people were shot, with one student critically injured, at Virginia State University (VSU) in Petersburg in August.
At Georgia Southern University in Swainsboro, which is also at the bottom of the safety list, five fraternities are under investigation for alleged violations of the code of student conduct, according to the university’s website.
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California pours $369M in wildfire recovery funds into low-income housing — but reserves none for fire victims
California funneled nearly $369 million in federal aid intended for victims of its deadliest wildfire year to low-income housing developers — without requiring them to house a single wildfire survivor, a California Post investigation found.
The staggering sum was awarded to developers while thousands of Californians struggled to rebuild their lives after the devastating 2018 fires, which killed 103 people and damaged or destroyed more than 24,000 structures.
Among them is motivational speaker and comedian, Mickey Schechter, 62, who lost his Cornell home and $60,000 in plumbing tools when the Woolsey Fire tore through the Santa Monica Mountains, destroying 37 homes in his community.
Nearly eight years later, he is still living in a cramped, 350-square-foot guesthouse that survived the blaze, unable to afford the estimated $2 million it would now cost to rebuild his home.
Schechter was furious when told where a large chunk of the federal cash had gone.
“That’s our money. We’re the ones that suffer for it. Give us our damn money. That’s bulls—t. I’m pissed,” Schechter told the California Post.
“Now I wanna know how can I possibly get money from that grant?” he said.
“That’s not your money. That’s our money.”
The federal government allocated more than $1 billion to California to help communities recover from the 2018 wildfires, including the Camp Fire that killed 85 people in Paradise and the Woolsey Fire that devastated communities north of Los Angeles.
The Woolsey Fire killed three people, destroyed 1,643 structures and caused more than $6 billion in damage.
The $1,017,399,000 allocation from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was intended to cover recovery costs not paid by insurance or other assistance.
California’s Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) oversees the money, dividing it between helping homeowners rebuild and financing affordable rental housing in fire-ravaged communities.
Of the $222.4 million earmarked for homeowners, just $38 million had been spent rebuilding 110 homes by the end of 2023, according to state records. The Camp Fire alone destroyed 14,000 homes.
Developers, meanwhile, were awarded $368.7 million for low-income housing projects, without any requirement to house wildfire survivors.
In one funding round last year, the state awarded $146.9 million to 14 developments from Santa Cruz to Covina, with a combined price tag of $632 million, roughly $754,000 per apartment.
HCD could not provide a count of how many, if any, wildfire survivors live in the apartments.
Meanwhile, Schechter says he has been left facing a financial nightmare.
He said the county charged roughly $178,000 for debris cleanup, while he has spent another $300,000 maintaining the property.
Insurance paid just $450,000 for his $750,000 home, which he estimates would now cost $2 million to rebuild.
But state rebuilding aid was restricted to low and moderate income homeowners, with insurance payouts reducing eligibility. Schechter says never received the help he needed.
The Woolsey Fire recovery program provides a stark example of how developers secured millions as survivors like Schechter struggled to rebuild.
In July 2024, California offered $26.7 million in Woolsey Fire recovery funds. Only one developer applied.
Rancho Cucamonga nonprofit National CORE proposed an 81-unit apartment complex in Agoura Hills, scoring just 90 points, barely above the 88-point minimum and the lowest among projects funded that round. Others scored as high as 117.
National CORE secured nearly the entire pot, $26.1 million, despite no requirement to house a single Woolsey Fire survivor.
The project’s location has also raised questions about evacuation routes in the fire-prone Santa Monica Mountains.
The apartments are just miles away from last week’s Bryson Fire that sent residents scrambling to evacuate, reigniting fears that adding more housing along one of only two major escape routes could turn an already dangerous bottleneck into a death trap.
“They are building apartments on the only way we can get out of here,” Schechter told the California Post. “During the Woolsey Fire, people were sitting in their cars for two hours trying to get out.
“With all these extra people, people will die.”
The project shrank to 54 units after officials denied a density bonus, but its $26.1 million award remained untouched, including $484,000 in federal disaster aid.
Agoura Hills officials said they had no say in the project or its multimillion-dollar funding award.
“The City did not have any role in selecting the project, the site, or the funding amount,” Community Development Director Robby Nesovic told the California Post.
HCD defended the spending, arguing that new apartments replace homes lost to the fires.
Displaced renters “generally choose to move to another existing rental housing unit,” spokeswoman Jennifer Hanson said.
But developers aren’t required to house fire survivors, who are instead grouped with Section 8 tenants as “least likely to apply” and targeted only through advertising.
State rules prohibit residency-based preferences, citing fair-housing laws. HCD wouldn’t say whether it considered prioritizing fire survivors.
Hundreds of miles north, officials in Butte County, where the Camp Fire leveled Paradise, said they were also shut out of the funding decisions.
“The County had no role in selecting these projects nor their funding amounts,” Deputy County Counsel Andrea Woodward-Sollesnes told the California Post.
Eaglepointe Apartments opened in Paradise last year with $7.3 million in disaster aid. Just seven of its 42 units, or one in six, went to Camp Fire survivors, according to local news reports.
Butte County has identified about 1,200 emails about the projects and is reviewing them for release under a public records request.
HUD, which approved California’s recovery plans and oversees the money, did not respond to the California Post’s request for comment.
Gavin Newsom: how dare you interfere in our vote fraud schemes
Federal agents smash huge voter fraud ring in California — days after state issued ultimatum
Federal agents collared suspects in a slew of voter fraud cases Monday morning, chasing targets across California drawn from a list of more than 20,000 suspected noncitizens in the state who allegedly registered to vote in next month’s midterm election.
Under the effort dubbed “Operation Protect the Vote,” law enforcement authorities sought more than two-dozen foreign nationals charged with fraudulently registering to vote in US elections, in which most of them allegedly cast illegal ballots.
Homeland Security Investigations swooped on the Commerce home of Alexander Muñoz around 6 a.m. in one of the arrests.
The agents pounded on the front door, calling for Muñoz to come out. He emerged and was taken into custody.
Authorities say Muñoz, 72, a Belizean national, fraudulently registered to vote in September 2019, claiming his was a US citizen. He then voted in US elections in 2020, twice in 2022, and in 2024.
Muñoz also lied on his application to become a naturalized US citizen, when he falsely stated under oath to have never claimed to be a citizen, investigators say. He faces felony charges, including making false statements in a naturalization application.
LA’s top federal prosecutor Bill Essayli said the charges brought against Muñoz and other suspects sought Monday buttress the federal government’s claims of widespread voter fraud in California.
“Today’s arrests confirm what we suspected and what we put California on notice for: Noncitizens are voting in California elections which is unconstitutional and illegal,” he said.
In addition to Muñoz, federal agents sought more than two-dozen addition individuals accused of similar crimes.
LA’s top federal prosecutor Bill Essayli said the charges brought against Muñoz and other suspects sought Monday buttress the federal government’s claims of widespread voter fraud in California.
“Today’s arrests confirm what we suspected and what we put California on notice for: Noncitizens are voting in California elections which is unconstitutional and illegal,” he said.
In addition to Muñoz, federal agents sought more than two-dozen addition individuals accused of similar crimes.
The Trump administration last week filed a bombshell lawsuit against the state for failing to review a list of more than 20,000 suspected noncitizens in the state who allegedly registered to vote in next month’s midterm election.
The suit filed Thursday came two days after Justice Department officials ordered the state’s election bosses to review the list naming thousands of alleged noncitizens believed to be on California’s voter rolls — giving them 48 hours to comply.
DOJ lawyers argued in the suit that the federal government has an obligation to intervene to prevent the state from permitting noncitizens to vote in federal elections. Under federal law, only US citizens are permitted to vote in such elections.
Federal officials supplied Los Angeles County with a password-protected thumb drive identifying suspected noncitizens who were sent mail-in ballots, according to letters sent Tuesday to Secretary of State Shirley Weber and LA County Clerk Dean Logan.
Acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter warned Logan and Weber in the letter that they would face legal challenge if they failed to review the list in time. A representative for Logan confirmed receipt of the letter.
Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted the effort as an attempt to interfere with California’s voting process.
“This is a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just three weeks before Election Day,” Newsom wrote on X. “Courts have made clear the federal government has no role in running state elections.”
US Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the lawsuit.
“State-facilitated voter fraud is unacceptable in the United States of America,” Blanche said. “If found responsible in a court of law, the State of California will have seriously undermined confidence in our electoral system.”
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