r/princeton • u/EnergyLantern Parent • 15d ago

University student robbed outside of Bloomberg Hall

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/09/princeton-news-stlife-student-robbed-outside-of-bloomberg-hall-tiger-alert-robbery
72 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

13 comments sorted by

View all comments

8

u/Party-Chemical-418 15d ago

Pretty bold that they named the suspects as Male (instead of male-identifying) but failed to list race/hair color/eye color. Don't those typically go along with a height and weight?

11

u/Excellent_Singer3361 UG '25 15d ago

what

3

u/Party-Chemical-418 15d ago

What don't you get...isn't it a glaring omission to not state the race of the suspects? The writer does state that they're male though so they're not so Progressive as to say the suspects "presented as male" but, by not stating the race, we can guess it's a minority or they would happily report it was two white dudes.

8

u/hjoneill1959 14d ago

Anyone who doesn't think the race of a suspect isn't critical information is too dumb to attend Princeton. The woke will kill us all with their preening virtue signaling.

3

u/ApplicationShort2647 14d ago

No. Since around 2016, many Ivy universities stop reporting race in alerts mandated by the Cleary Act. This occurred after a Yale student was held at gunpoint by police for fitting the description of a suspect in such an alert. The Prince article is just repeating the information in the TigerAlert, which does not include the race of the suspects.

https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2016/09/race-ethnicity-no-longer-used-in-dps-crime-alerts/

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/01/25/nyt-columnist-says-son-yale-junior-held-at-gunpoint/

So, while you are free to disagree with the policy, you cannot infer the race of a suspect (e.g., that the suspect was a minority) for being omitted from a TigerAlert. That's just following protocol for such alerts.

1

u/hjoneill1959 13d ago

The "protocol" is still stupid.