Campus crime stats at your fingertips

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Sending your kid off to school and need something else to worry about? How about campus crime?

UCrime.com provides recent crime information on 101 colleges and universities nationwide. The maps I tested of the University of Colorado at Boulder and USC were slow to load on my computer but told me what I suspected. Students on the Colorado campus have a lot less crime to deal with than those here in L.A. The icons for different types of crime pretty well covered the map of USC.

I passed on the option to sign up for alerts on recently reported crimes. Enough already. Perhaps this is a better tool for parents whose children are still weighing what college to attend.

-- Lauren Beale, Real Estate editor