Monday, August 29, 2005
Students reported two auto burglaries and one hit-and-run accident last week in lot 90, south of Robinson Center. Officials said there were no immediate plans to install cameras.
The burglaries involved more than $1,000 in damage and valuables stolen from two KU students’ vehicles. Both occurred Aug. 23 between 2 p.m. and 5:25 p.m.
The KU Public Safety Office and Student Senate have been working to increase safety on campus.
The office and one of the students whose car was burglarized said security cameras would help curb theft and criminal damage.
Rylan Howe / KANSAN
Lot 90, located off Naismith Drive between Robinson Center and Naismith Hall, was the scene of two burglaries and a hit-and-run accident last week. There are no security cameras to survey the lot.
Emily Putbrese, Grand Forks, N.D., senior, said either police should patrol the area more often or more cameras would be needed in parking lots. Putbrese reported $253 in valuables stolen and $300 in window damage.
“It was all of my stuff. I had no form of money for like three days,” Putbrese said.
The accident where an unidentified vehicle struck the front bumper of a Mazda MX-6 occurred Aug. 24 sometime between 7:45 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.
Chief Ralph Oliver of the KU Public Safety Office said there were no plans to install cameras in lot 90 because of a limited budget. But he said he thought there should be a camera in every lot.
“We can’t afford to put all cameras in at one time,” he said. “If cameras were positioned in every parking lot, it would have cost well over $1 million,” Oliver said.
The office placed emphasis to install cameras in residence hall parking lots because crimes against people take priority over property theft and damage, Oliver said.
Most of the cameras cover parking lots, Oliver said.
The installation of additional cameras also would not be on the agenda when the Student Senate’s Campus Safety Advisory Board meets for the first time next week, said Jason Boots, board member and Plano, Texas, senior.
Instead of allocating funding for additional cameras, Student Senate plans to increase funding for the Jaywalk program with some of its $90,000 budget, Boots said. Jaywalk is a service for students on campus who prefer to walk home or to their car with another student at night for safety reasons.
The University of Kansas would match funds for Jaywalk and a few additional projects, he said. The public safety office worked to generate the funding for the cameras, he said.
Networking and Telecommunications Systems began equipping Daisy Hill, Jayhawker Towers, GSP-Corbin Hall and the Lied Center with cameras in the beginning of July, in phase one of the two-phase project. Cameras already located at Allen Fieldhouse and Memorial Stadium were upgraded, Oliver said.
Cameras outside the Kansas Union, Watson Library and the Student Recreation Fitness Center would be installed in phase two of the project.
Phase-two cameras would be installed as funding becomes available.
The University provided $280,000 for the project, and the Department of Homeland Security provided $150,000.
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