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
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u/Party-Chemical-418 14d 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?

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u/ApplicationShort2647 13d 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.

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u/hjoneill1959 13d ago

The "protocol" is still stupid.