Liberals supported soft-on-crime policies

Columbus OH

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Liberals supported soft-on-crime policies — now that crime has come to campus Elite universities may prefer not to talk much about violent crime if they can avoid it, but they can’t protect their charges from what goes on in a freshly violent City. Columbia University president Lee Bollinger calls the random stabbing murder of PhD student Davide Giri on Thursday night “unspeakably sad and deeply shocking.” Giri is the second Columbia student to be killed in a stranger-on-stranger attack in a supposedly safe public space in less than two years. In December 2019, in another attack just weeks before students were to leave campus for the holiday season, three teenagers targeted a female victim, 18-year-old Tessa Majors, in Morningside Park. They tortured her to death, holding the vulnerable young woman down and stabbing her. But trying to keep city campuses safe while chaos rages all around is always a losing proposition. Just this week, Sam Collington, 21, a Temple University student, was shot to death in a robbery near his Philadelphia apartment, not far from campus. Last month, Shaoxiong “Dennis” Zheng, 24, a 2021 University of Chicago master’s grad, was killed in a robbery in Hyde Park, just by the university. Amazingly enough, Zheng was the second University of Chicago community member to die violently this year. In June, student Max Lewis, 20, was killed by a “stray bullet” as he sat minding his own business on the city’s elevated-rail system. Last year, UC-Berkeley student Seth Smith, 19, was shot and killed walking near his own off-campus apartment in the Northern California city. You can thank the liberal left for their insane Defund the police and the liberal Judges who let repeat offender go. Let's face the truth the conservatives lobby for tougher laws and tougher sentences on repeat offenders. The more often poor black teens and young adults die on the street from soaring urban violence, the more often elite students will die, too. “Only steps from our campus” is no protection. Lee Bollinger should instead use the influence of the university to insist new Mayor Eric Adams, the City Council and Albany make the city safer for all New Yorkers.