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Surprised? Not exactly. But you have to consider that Yale, which landed in national headlines after the grisly murder of grad student Annie Le, is ranked #23—that is, slightly less dangerous than dear old Cambridge. The future seems bleak...
...Sept. 8 killing of Yale graduate student Annie Le, just days before she was to be married, was another harrowing instance of what authorities called "workplace violence...
Police in New Haven, Conn., described Le's strangulation death in a campus lab as part of an increasing national trend in jobsite brutality. "This is not about urban crime, university crime, domestic crime," said New Haven police chief James Lewis on Sept. 17, after authorities arrested Le's co-worker, "but an issue of workplace violence, a growing concern around the country." (Read: "Do Early-Release Programs Raise the Crime Rate...
Police have charged Raymond Clark III, 24, a technician who worked in the same medical laboratory as Le. Authorities said Le had not previously reported any threats or harassment on the part of Clark, and the two did not have a relationship outside their professional one. No motive has been given. The vast majority of homicide victims in the U.S. are killed by people they know; among workplace homicides, however, what authorities allege happened to Le - being killed by a co-worker - is unusual. Experts say most workplace homicides involve retail and service workers killed by strangers during robberies...
...These are what they call low-frequency, high-intensity incidents," says Daniel B. Kennedy, a forensic consultant and criminal justice professor at the University of Detroit Mercy, referring to Le's murder. "It does not bespeak any sudden wave of violence and homicide at the workplace. It just had a number of unique twists...