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Sounds like security cameras.

I'll bet they installed smoke detectors and emergency lighting and all sorts of other things without telling students either.

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I had my PS2 stolen from a dorm at the other SD university. More security cameras would have been a great thing at the time.

More cameras does not equal more security. They aren't put there to protect your property in the same way that HR departments don't exist to protect employees.

No, they're put there to collect grainy images of the perpetrator to distribute after the shooting. It's sad/ineffectual, but still far less nefarious than TFA makes it sound.

What’s the other SD university?

There's also the principle of proportionality.

Is this institution's campus such a dangerous / crime-ridden area that it warrants 1,300 cameras to track everyone everywhere @ all times? Hmm...

Right. 1,300 cameras for over 50,000 people in a hundred or so multi-story buildings spread over a couple of hundred acres...seems proportionate. It's maybe a dozen cameras per building on average?

I'm not a fan of surveillance per se, but acting like this is disproportionate is just silly.

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