College Safety Results - Reader's Digest

AdmissionsDaniel
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:20:23 +0000

Here is an interesting article discussing College Campus Security recently published in the Reader’s Digest:

[Is Your College Student Safe at School?: Special Report | Education | Reader’s Digest](http://www.rd.com/family/parenting/parenting-and-education/is-your-college-student-safe-at-school/article.html)

“Best Practices: Some schools are going high-tech to fight crime. At Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, more than 100 so-called smart cameras (they use a computer algorithm to detect suspicious activity) keep a constant eye on campus – and beyond. The system recently spied a man in an alley behind an off-campus residence peering into sleeping students’ rooms. A campus command center was alerted. When the man got into a car, a camera zoomed in on his license plate and then fed the number to police. Minutes later, when an armed robbery occurred nearby, the description of the suspect matched that of the would-be Johns Hopkins intruder, and the police made an arrest.”

And here is the results of their Campus Safety Survey: