I suggest looking at the actual stats:
http://ope.ed.gov/security/GetOneInstitutionData.aspx
Look up your favorite local college and see for yourself.
Edit:
Here's another nice one to look at:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/vvcs02.txt
Highlights:
From 1995 to 2002 violence against college students decreased 54%,
while violence against nonstudents of similar ages fell 45%
On average, from 1995 to 2002, comparing persons ages 18-24 --
* Male college students were twice as likely to be victims of overall
violence than female students (80 versus 43 per 1,000).
* White college students had some-what higher rates of violent victimization
than blacks and higher rates than students of other races (65 versus 52 and 37
per 1,000, respectively).
* For females, nonstudents were over 1.5 times more likely than college
students to be a victim of a violent crime (71 versus 43 per 1,000). For
males, students and nonstudents were equally likely to be the victim of
a violent crime (about 80 per 1,000).
* For both whites and blacks, nonstudents had higher rates of violent
victimization than college students (81 and 83 versus 65 and 52 per
1,000).
* Hispanic college students and nonstudents experience violence at similar
rates.
Characteristics of violent
victimizations of college students:
* 58% were committed by strangers.
* 41% of offenders were perceived to be using alcohol or drugs.
* 93% of crimes occurred off campus, of which 72% occurred at night.
I am not forwarding the notion that colleges are 100% safe 100% of the time but for a person to claim that they are inherently unsafe is not correct.