Ctc Case Studies

Location of a university is a contributing factor to the safety of the students and campus. The overall crime rating of the university is based on reported crime on campus and in surrounding areas. Colleges with low amounts of reported crime are valued as being safer. Bradley University earns an overall crime rating of C- when comparing on-campus, city, and regional crime against all other schools nationwide. According to the data, Bradley’s campus rated as a D+, Peoria rated as an F+, the region rated as a D (“Bradley University Crime”). In this section, I will be addressing the crime factors related to the city of Peoria and on campus.

Crime measurement and statistics for police departments are very important when it comes to money allotment, staffing needs or termination and it is also used to determine the effectiveness of new laws and programs. There are three tools used to measure major crime in the United States: Uniform Crime Reports, National Crime Victimization Survey and the National Incident Based Reporting System- which is currently being tested to replace the Uniform Crime Reports. Although there different tools used to measure crime, crime rates can be deceiving. Each different tool reports a different type of rate, crime rates, arrest

THESIS: In today’s world, the phone often provides a primary source of access to both social support and necessary data for school and extracurricular activities,” Dodgen-Magee says. “To simply yank it away would be like taking away the support of a bridge with nothing in its place.”

Sitting through an hour-long lecture or waiting in line to speak with financial aid are some examples of an average day on campus. It is during these times when students are least expecting tragedy to strike. A student may hear a loud noise and think nothing of it until they realize that noise was the sound of a shooting rampage that has reached their area and by that time it’s usually too late. Campus safety is everyone’s responsibility and remaining on alert is the only way to ensure less people are victimized. One of the first, and most memorable, attacks happened on August 1, 1966. Charles Whitman, a former marine, took rifles and other weapons to the observation deck atop the Main Building tower at The University of Texas- Austin, then randomly opened fire on the surrounding campus and streets. Over the next 96 minutes, far longer than the average active shooter attack, he shot and killed fifteen people. Included in the death toll was one unborn child, and injured thirty-one others. The incident ended when police reached Whitman and shot him dead. During this event, civilians played a vital role in assisting first responders in the take down of Whitman and Allen Crum, a 40-year-old bookstore manager and retired Air Force tail gunner, accompanied police up the tower in pursuit of Whitman. While Crum was armed, it solely because officers handed him a firearm to assist in Whitman’s take down.

There should be more campus security/police posts around campus to lower the number of attacks, robberies, thefts and to help make students feel more secure on campus. Call boxes and messaging systems are pointless, implementing apps like LiveSafe and TapShield will help students have an “on-the-go” safety measure. Although Stephen F. Austin does have a safety app most students are not

Since the Virginia Tech shootings, school campuses across America have repeatedly discussed campus safety ideas such as emergency responses and communications. Many colleges and universities have increased their security officers on campuses while also trying high tech security options (Saavedra). One of the high tech security measures many colleges are interested in using to alert their students is the mass text-message alerts in case of an emergency. This is a notification system that sends text message to students on their cell phones during a shooting, earthquake, bomb scare, or any other emergencies (Saavedra). Although this sounds like a very good security idea, most colleges don’t have the money or resources to make this idea happen which means they are having to resort to just adding security officers to ride around campus on bicycles with loud speakers to spread the message during emergencies (Saavedra).

As a fellow Trojan living in the heart of a huge metropolitan city of Los Angeles, we are constantly bombarded by news of local crimes. Though sheltered in our little bubble of university life, we are still reminded of the dangers lurking in the shadows, perpetually threatening our sense of individual security. As a student, these fears most likely consist of physical safety such as being robbed, so an easy fix is just to not walk home alone and be more aware of the environment. If more support is needed, there are campus security,

Beginning in the 1990’s, crime numbers began to fall and and there are many explanations for the decrease in crime. To begin, the police began using new catching approaches by changing aspects such as an increase in enforcement of nuisance activities. Additionally, they began to invest in their technology and started to identify crime hot spots. The hot spots are where crime is found most often but never recognized.

As students embark on the journey that is college many new obstacles are bound to come their way, but yet, safety and security should never be the reason for fear in a student. It is becoming more clear that college campus shootings can happen and Gary Pavela and James Alan Fox have outlined the reasons why previous shootings have caused problems within college administration in modern times. Due to research on capmus shootings college administration has increased their safety measures in the wrong ways. College campuses have hindered the well-being of students then and now because administrative teams are attempting to make safety their first priority, , but in turn actually enlisting fear into student’s minds.

The biggest challenge, being able to adapt to the ever-changing world. Chief McDuffie stated that society is different than it was in the past. He went on to say, by UNCP being located in such a rural area it is easy to get complacent and think terrorist attacks can’t happen here; but they can “it is not a matter of if it happens to us but rather when it happens to us.” He continued, in the old days the philosophy was, what are you going to do if a terrorist attack happens on your campus?, today the Philosophy is what are you going to do when a terrorist attack happens on campus? Chief McDuffie also noted that it is a great challenge to protect UNCP from terrorist attacks because it is an open campus. There is no fences or walls to separate the rest of the population from UNCP therefore, the campus is constantly improving and expanding it surveillance across campus as a counter measure. Once the camera project is complete there will be 591 cameras operating across campus. Despite all this technology the greatest tool at their disposal is communication between faculty, staff and student. Officer McDuffie say he does not have the man power to cover the whole campus at one time, therefore he depends on people to be his eyes and ears. Overall, surveillance, community policing and collaboration with other police agencies and Universities has kept UNCP’s

In the deep piney woods of east Texas, there stands a school that has been around since the early nineteenth century, Stephen F. Austin State University. For all students, safety should be one of their most important priorities when picking a university or college. Stephen F. Austin State University, or SFASU, luckily has a well-organized and well informed website that offers all of its students important tips and procedures on what to do in case of an emergency. Though only a few handful of students know about the website because is not well publicized. This results in a large amount of students not knowing that there is a website that provides them with vital information on everything they need do to remain safe in the case of an emergency.

b) SRJC has over 36,000 students, faculty, and staff. How are the 13 sworn police officers supposed to protect all 36,000 individuals that attend or work for the JC? Transition: Now that we examined that response times for attacks on school campus are not the very best we can move on to reliability on others for protection. II.

Alternate Thesis 1: Despite the financial costs, it is long past time to build, organize and deploy a comprehensive integrated, nationwide, multi-communication platform to protect the lives of citizens by issuing alerts to the broadest spectrum of citizens possible.

“Security isn’t so much a problem in the school, but this is another precaution that we can take,” says Pat Gallagher, an American physicist and the eighteenth chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh. The run/fight and lockdown drills would not work in some situations, when gunmen come into the school or try to break in. Woodlynde needs a security guard to protect the children and teachers while they try to run away from school or hide inside the rooms. This is why Woodlynde needs security guards and not just the safety drills inside Woodlynde’s protection routine.

The hard, cold realities of campus vulnerabilities have made many education stakeholders review, implement and upgrade a wide variety of solutions related to safety and security (Hatersley-Gray, 2015). The Clery Act is a federal law that requires colleges to report crimes that occur “on campus” and school safety policies. It also requires schools to send timely warnings to the school community when there are known risks to public safety on campus (Clery Act, n.d.). Virginia Tech had the capability