Having dampened thefts, Public Safety tackles unde-rage drinking

Having dampened thefts, Public Safety tackles unde-rage drinking
Campus police's worst nightmare.

Princeton New Jersey lives up to its reputation as a hotbed of crime with a total of 37 burglaries and 12 sex offenses in 2006. But Princeton's Public Safety is quick to admit that they had nothing to do with the reduction of burglaries from 42 in 2005; it was all the self-locking doors that have left many a student dripping wet after a shower in the hall. 

"Typically, a student will leave a door unlocked, and someone will come in," Director of Public Safety, Steve Healy, said. "We tend to believe these are student-on-student crimes." It's a relief that even the best and the brightest have flaws like kleptomania. 

Other flaws - like alcoholism - are less tolerated. "The thing that keeps me up at night is the possible consequences of high-risk drinking," Healy said. How ambitious of Princeton's guardians of public safety to focus their attention on the school's least solveable problem.

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