25 Years Later, Has Clery Made Campuses Safer?
A masked man pointed a gun at a student and commanded her to get in his car, not far from the center of the University of Connecticut’s campus. The young woman started to obey, but the man had forgotten to unlock the passenger-side door. She screamed and ran toward a university employee nearby. The masked driver sped away. The incident, in 2012, could have ended as a terrifying mystery, with an unknown attacker on the loose. But within a few hours of the attempted kidnapping, Bruce Alan Ursin was in custody. Police found a .45-caliber handgun in his truck, along with a duffel bag containing gloves, duct tape, rope, and Vaseline. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.