From: University Police
Thursday - March 26, 2009 3:26 PM
To: University Police
Subject: Campus Bulletin - Off-campus robbery
CAMPUS SAFETY BULLETIN OFF-CAMPUS ROBBERY
On March 26, 2009 at approximately 9:10 a.m., a Salisbury University student was robbed near the intersection of College Ave and Smith Street. The offender was apprehended a short time later, and transported to the Wicomico County Detention Center for booking by the Salisbury Police Department.
I would like to remind our campus community that crimes can occur anywhere at anytime. Individuals should always be attentive to their surroundings, and remain alert to the potential ill-intent of others nearby.
Please review and consider the following street robbery tips:
1. Try to remain calm. Do not resist. Consider the robber dangerous.
2. In most cases, the robber only wants your valuables/money and is not there
to hurt you.
3. Assume the robber is armed, even if you don't see a weapon.
4. If a weapon is displayed, consider it to be real and loaded.
5. Do only what the robber tells you. If you don't understand, tell the robber.
6. Attempt to get a good, complete description of the robber, - taking note of unique and unusual characteristics.
7. Your main goal is to survive!
8. Don't resist and fight with the assailant unless it is evident that your
life is in danger.
9. Remember--your valuables can be replaced, - your life can't.
Report all crimes and any suspicious persons immediately to the police. If possible, use a cellular phone to call 911 while maintaining visual observation of the subject(s).
Chief Edwin L. Lashley
University Police
ellashley@salisbury.edu
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and stay away from smith street. college students are like prey
ReplyDeleteMost of the parents of kids coming down to Salisbury University have no clue whatsoever about the "crime situation" in the Salisbury metro area. That area where this occured has always been notorious for this type of crime. I have to agree that 9:10 AM in very unusual but the location is not.
ReplyDeleteThe "trouble areas" are not identified to potential renters and being from out of town, they have no idea of the "history" of various neighborhoods. For instance, how many parents, or even current students for that matter, are aware of the shootings and robberies that plagued the highly popular "zoo" area between Halsey Drive and Perry Drive off South Division Street? Not too many I bet.
I know SU has a housing problem but they should be proactive and work with the City of Salisbury, the SU Police Dept., and the Salisbury City Police Department to place college renters into more safer areas of town. Considering the present regime closed the substations, there is no protection at all from the criminals that lurk around and literally prey on these kids.
All that SU's money hungry administration cares about is numbers - dollar numbers. They sweep information about off campus crime under the rug so potential students' parents will not be turned off by Salisbury's high crime rate.
I am convinced that Mr. Ireton will be elected the next Mayor of Salisbury and I truly hope he fires Chief Webster - who has absolutely no credibility in the City, the County, and even his own force - and then begins to address this issue because these kids are catching hell and it will only be a matter of time before one of the students is murdered. Just watch and see.
9:10 am?? If that is correct, then that is crazy. If criminals are starting to rob during the daylight hours, that really shows how dangerous our city has become. Are you paying attention Mayor, you stupid biotch.
ReplyDeleteShow this to barrie tilghman=shes been pounding ireton for facts on crime.She is one dip shit.
ReplyDeleteAnon 6:53 PM is SPOT ON. Very well written and appears to be from someone in "the know". Thank you and I hope the parents from present and potential SU studens read this post.
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ReplyDeleteYes, SU and the city need better communication and need to work together to keep each other healthy and safe. I don't think moving student housing will work. You're right, criminals prey on us. They will follow us and rob the next college student hot-spot.
No, SU does not sweep it completely under the rug. They don't send tour groups down Smith street spinning off crime stats, but the SU police regularly send emails about many off campus crimes with prevention tips just like this one.
I also hope Jim is elected and solves so many of the crime problems in Salisbury.
-SU student
Ireton shouldn't fire the Chief right away. Do everything you can to make his life miserable until he quits. Cut his pay, make him wear a uniform and go out on patrol. He should be required to keep a log of his time and what he does, while exclusively working the graveyard shift. Let him patrol on foot the Smith Street area between the University and the Hospital.
ReplyDeleteIf our arrogant scumbag Mayor thinks crime is down, let her walk the streets of Salisbury alone at 1am. She should walk from the University down the full length of Smith Street, down Newton and Camden, down Fitzwater, and up Delaware to the Police Station. See if she makes without getting robbed or worse. Then maybe a little stroll around Church Street and the area by the old train station (that was going to be the Brewery). See who needs an apology then.
this is just to funny, i just looked at the wboc website and read an article they did with the mayor stating that ireton is syaing that crime is up and she says its down but from the looks of crime is rising.I wish i still lived in salisbury because jim would have my vote. I bet im my Grandmother had run for city council years ago like she wanted to the city would be alot better than what it is now.
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ReplyDeleteyou are such a pawn. saying exactly what the administration at the school wants you to say. typical..
The State of Md. desperately needs a concealed carry law. End of story.
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I am an SU grad student, therefore I am on campus 3-4 nights per week. I have refused to buy a parking permit because I am not on campus during high traffic times, and they are too expensive for all the money I am already paying out to be there, and my designated parking lot would be very far from my classes. The idea of walking across a dark campus alone with all the crime going on now is ridiculous, until I see some SU police on foot patrolling campus, I will park wherever I please! If I get a parking ticket, you can be sure I will fight that for all its worth. I've been at the university and living in the area for 7 years now and cannot believe all that has changed.
ReplyDelete"to place college renters into more safer areas of town"
ReplyDeleteYou have got to be kidding. The police have a hard enough time catching criminals, now you want them to be in the real estate buisness also.
They protecy and serve, not house and protect.
Yo, Bubba! Crime's down in the 'hoods with closed substations.
ReplyDeleteOh right. Smith St. had one.
Another mugging for you, a student.
Tell us again how safe we should feel. Or how proud you are of your waste plant.
I know SU has a housing problem but they should be proactive and work with the City of Salisbury, the SU Police Dept., and the Salisbury City Police Department to place college renters into more safer areas of town. Considering the present regime closed the substations, there is no protection at all from the criminals that lurk around and literally prey on these kids.
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And exactly where in the safer area of the town would you put the students? Consider that most need to walk or ride their bike to school as they dont have cars.
I think re-opening the police sub statations will help a lot. I graduated in 91 and lived in a shack on Princeton Ave and never had any problms there. Now I hear that is a bad part of the city. Where close to the University is safe?
Hey 9:25, this is a about a robbery! No one wants to hear you whine about a parking permit.
ReplyDeleteEveryone should try to avoid 911 and have the direct phone number to each and every public safety department in the city and county. That will save time, confusion and get responce on the way a lot faster.
ReplyDeleteAll this talk about substations from people who don't really know how it works. Just so you know, the high crime, former substation neighborhoods are being patrolled just as much now, if not more, than in the past. The difference is that the City doesn't have to foot the monthly bill to rent a place or pay for utilities, and they don't have to waste the valuable services of a trained police officer to sit in a substation all day waiting on the few people who actually would come. The officers are still patrolling, doing all they can and the substation philosophy is outdated and would be a waste of City resources at a time when we need to be as efficient as possible. I like Ireton's committment to cleaning up the City, just hope he puts a little more thought into the substation thing. The officers need to be proactive and mobile, not reactive and tied down. Oh, and they need WAY more officers at SPD than they have!
ReplyDelete7:59, sounds like you haven't actually heard what Ireton has to say about the substations. Hint: go watch the speech on youtube. He wants them to be bases of operations, not a place to sit. And he has been approached by several business owners, eager to let the city use some of their space for free for some of the substations. it's not like Ireton hasn't put any thought into it.
ReplyDeleteWhat I love most about this press release about a robbery, is that it came out during Mayor Tilghman's speech about how crime is down. She started at 3:00 and finished at 3:30. This was put out at 3:26. How's that for irony?
ReplyDeletei was at the robbery that morning near the SU campus. What they dont tell anyone is that the idiot was trying to rob someone with a cap gun (he had taken the orange peice off) and the person being robbed held him down on the ground untill the police (whom my boyfriend who was with me at the time had called). The police were there within a matter of minutes and the armed robber is going to jail for a long time hopefully. I have also learned that he had robbed a student not an hour before, and attempted to rob another a few days before but she got away.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the cops got there on time, but the current mayor needs to realize that when a armed robbery happens at 9 in the morning less than a block from Su Campus, and literally right outside a major student housing area, there is a problem with the crime rate in the city.