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New cameras watch over Trabant

Published: Monday, February 27, 2012

Updated: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 03:02

Trabs cameras

Marek Jaworski

Security cameras monitor the food court in the Trabant University Center. The cameras were installed during winter session to help deter theft this semester.

Cameras

Marek Jaworski

Before the cameras were installed, cashiers and other Trabant University Center employees monitored theft in the food court.

Until last week, sophomore Gabby Coleman said she had not noticed the new security cameras watching over the food court in the Trabant University Center, which were installed over winter break.

"I guess they're a good idea," Coleman said. "I always see people steal stuff."

Margot Carroll, director of Hospitality Services, said the cameras have been in operation for the past two months and were installed to discourage students from stealing at the food court.

"[It is the] best practice for any commercial establishment that deals with a high volume of people and cash transaction," Carroll said. "People are aware that cameras are present and they refrain from committing a crime that could potentially be captured on video, hence the cameras serve as a deterrent."

She said the Trabant food court did not previously have surveillance cameras because university officials primarily concentrated on improving security at areas where students walk and a higher volume of crime has occurred.

During certain times, Carroll said university personnel are on a "virtual patrol," watching all university camera feeds, such as those from Trabant, for signs of trouble. She said employees at the dispatch center in the Office of Public Safety scan the feeds and are able to pull up specific cameras and monitor activity in that area if a complaint is received.

"That allows the 911 Center staff to be on-scene evaluating what is occurring even before a police officer arrives," Carroll said.

She said food theft at Trabant had previously been regulated by cashiers and other employees who are able to identify wrongdoing. She said university officials hope the cameras in Trabant will decrease crime, though it is too early in the semester to tell whether they have been effective as a preventative measure.

Carroll said Perkins Student Center also has several cameras, and students can expect to see more cameras installed in university buildings in the future.

Junior Kacie Hart said she thinks the cameras will be effective in discouraging theft only if they are used to identify students to be reprimanded.

Hart said more direct forms of surveillance, such as personnel watching over the food court, would be more effective than the cameras.

"It would be better for the staff to be able to call people out or to have an officer standing there because that's more direct and personal," Hart said.

Sophomore Emily Patrolia said she knows people who steal from the food court and thinks that it happens frequently.

Patriola said she believes the cameras might be an effective deterrent against theft if the students are aware of their presence but thought the added surveillance may be somewhat invasive.

"It feels a little bit like Big Brother, but it's whatever," Patriola said.

Freshman Chris Gulledge said he had not previously noticed the new cameras but does not mind them. He said he thinks they will have a positive effect in preventing crime in Trabant.

"It's nice [that they've been installed], because people can walk out of [the food court] with just anything," Gulledge said. "I don't think stealing from student centers is a problem on campus, but I don't think it would be very hard to do."

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10 comments

Anonymous
Thu Mar 8 2012 16:00
The U.D.security thought nobody was putting all together. Well shouldn't they be surprised. I would give the all the information below to the judge: Judge jerome O. Herlihy of the Delaware superior Court 820 French St # F1 11 Wilmington, DE 19801-3509 Phone:302-577-7042 and 302-255-0800 There are diffently grounds for both the public defender and the prosecutor to be brought up on charges of unethical behavior by the Delaware BAR Associated. You cann't just not communicate with your client, and withhold critical evidence that will help him in a case from the judge. This is certainly what both the prosecutor and public defender had done in this case. That ground right there for dissmissal. The public defender was throwing the case. That is certainly corruption. He is not trying to help his client be found not guilty. He as retaliated against for being a whistleblower.
This is no sense what the security at U.D. had done to the guy below. They were social networking, and had the professor under surveillance for two years. In esscences the security at both his employer and U.D had him under a type of unwarrant stalking. That is sick. It is corrupt. The judge should be made aware of this stuff below along with the Dean at U.D. and the attorney general. It's scary. who do you call when the security are the criminals. lying on police reports, electonically stalking through a cell phone, having a trustworthy witnesses call in and lie everyting, and knowingly taking his statements is absolutely corrupt. For two years, they stalkked him. He even filed a complaint. And ten months the U.D. security stalked him. I bet that trustworthy witness was heading back and fourth to pa stalking too. They harassed him at his employer, he did the right thing and filed a complaint about the indicident, and the U.D.security electonically stalks him, harass him, agitates him and set him up for crimes. They weren't communicating with the professor and moving him in a direction to set him up by baiting him and luring him. Of course it retaliation. Then everything was handed off to the public defender and the prosecutor, and they "make a deal". Nobody put everything together, and only gave the judge one piece of the entire case that had many pieces. This is a text book example of organized group stalking, and retaliation of a whistleblower. This is terrible. And the fact they already shot off their mouths and lied to the press, and contacted a freemason journalist and lied. OMG. We should all be horrified at the U.D.security. There is all this stuff now. Names, dates, times, quotes...it is a complaint breakdown of the stalking, harassment, and retaliation. the attorney general should lay the pipe to this creeps...
Anonymous
Sun Mar 4 2012 20:31
OMG. an anonymous tip of corruption over the freepress. OMG! Somebody screwed the pooch on this one below judge Jerome O. Herlihy. I am sure they will lie about all this below. Make up some story. Classic case of "whistleblower" retaliation. All the key elements. Malicious prosecution, Lack of communication between judge and client. "that's ground right there by the Delaware BAR association to be released from being an attorney." Lying on police reports. Ten month investigations on a "whistleblower" in another state." Trustworthy", who are calling in and lying about everything to two security guards, that are the same age, and from the same place as the "trustworthy" witness who is lying about everything on the Unviersity of Delaware security reports. Electonic harassement, Electonic stalking. An investigation that begins the day after a formal "good faith" complaint reaches Harrisburg Area Community college in Lancaster. And end ten months later, three weeks before the Pa governor demands that harrisburg area community college answer the 60 counts of harassment and discrimination on the formal complaint numbers: PHRC Case No. 200800802 and EEOC Case No. 17F200960329 According to the national whistleblower association "felony" retaliation of whistleblowers happens in many bizarre and odd ways. In many case bizarre charges of False harassment, or fake stalking charges, inappropriate investigation lasting long period of time, House being broken into when nobody is home, and obtain search warrants by deception based on the false pretenses of Danger or having weapons. The courtroom transcrips from Judge Jerome O. Herlihy in late December 2010 indicating pure confusion as to why the University of delaware security was heading to lancster Pa. Why the public defender was not communicating with the client nor him about special circumstances in the case with the professor. A Pa state trooper outright calling the professor three times stating, "90% of the stuff they took had nothing to do with any charges. we just communicate with people. This is like no protocol i have ever seen. This certainly isn't Pa state police protocol. You don't have any guns. They were walking across to neighbors house in the mid afternoon, and they knew who your neighbors were who were at home in a mid summer day. This is weird. this doesn't make sense." A FBI agent stating, "take me back time. Did you file a complaint somewhere along the line?" the forensic evidence and reports from Dr. Robert G. Thompson of the delaware pscyh clinic in new castle being kept from judge jerome o. Herlihy. Confiding in the doctor about the corruption and the electonic harassment. Being mobbed at Harrisburg area communit college in lancaster, and being the fourth person in three years to be harassed/discriminated or run off for the following: outsider, whistleblower, homosexual, or outspoken. Classic retaliation protocol, Get the professor diagnosed with schzophrenia, and state that he has problems because mommy and daddy beat him. Good try, three honorable discharges from the U.S.Army. How can you suddenly be nuts, come to another county and be liar. Whistleblowers are known to be trustworthy, and i certain the professor would lie to the Pa governor. A freemason named ad crable placing the professor on the internet 12x with lies the University of delaware stated on the police reports the day after. The unethical freemason Ad Crable works at the lancaster newspaper. A crime manufactured. An illusion of trickery in order to discredit, nullify, and silence a whistleblower. I would request a time-line, the pscyh evals, the police reports, and talk to the professor. why would he lie? I would also check the bottom of the police reports and see if the supervisor was a freemason and ex-fbi. I would see when left, and when another ex-FBI or freemason supervisor was hired. they have tendency in whistleblower retaliation cases to do the "freemason Schuffle".Thanks for allowing me to express my freedom of speech through the freepress, free from any retaliation.
Anonymous
Sun Mar 4 2012 16:09
Judge Jerome o. Herlhy and the attorney general should be made aware of this information immediately. Ogden and Harker know what those security guards did. Trustworthy witnesses calling in the the security of delaware of delaware and lying. What set up! Just sit back and play dumb. Lie to those kids who write for the UDreview. Get "freemasons" to post lies creating the illusion a crime was committed through trickery. Simply to silence, discredit, and nullify a whistleblower. They know that prosecutor and public defender were egnaging in malicious prosecution of that whistleblower. Ogden has 20 years of experience in police work. Don't think for one second he doesn't know about the University of Delaware's security engaging in police misconduct. It's unbelieve the corruption going to between Pennsylvania and the University of delaware security. This is bizarre. When was Ogden brought on board at the University of Delaware? And when did the supervisor on the bottom of the lying University of Delaware police reports leave. Check to see if they are both mason and ex-FBI. Dr. Robert G. Thompson at the New Castle Psycy clinic knows what "felony" retaliation of a whistleblower is. He knew about the professor filing a formal "good faith" complaint. The forenic doctor knows was cop stalking is, inappropriate investigation are, mobbing and organized gang stalking. He has seen all. The profesor former attorney Natalie Wooshin figured out everything after the psych evaluation reports. The professor confided in dr Robert G. Thompson. The doctor knows whistleblower are traditionaly known to be trustworthy...why else would they come forward and tell the governor, and filed complaints with the EEOC and PHRC. The school had done mobbed, harassd, discriminated, and forced other people out. Right there you have track record of misbehavior. Right away you know something wrong when security guards from the University of delaware are heading way up to lancaster to bust into professor house's when nobody home. That is an old "mason" trick. To say people are dangerous and have weapon, then throw them in jail, and then bust into their house when nobody home. This is classic retaliation of a whistleblower. Why aren't people making Judge Jerome O. Herlihy aware of this ciminal manipulation of our legal system? Why isn't the attorney general stepping in and saying, "hey those security at the University of delaware were egaging in electronic harassment, organize cause stalking, harassing the professor, and retaliation of a whistleblower" Then they are all selectively keeping key information from the judge by not communicating with the judge nor the client. It's malicious prosecution. It's fixed!!!
Anonymous
Sat Mar 3 2012 21:42
Sorry, since when is it OK to steal just because you don't have time to pay? Wouldn't work out too well at the mall, I imagine!!
Anonymous
Fri Mar 2 2012 14:40
An observation: perhaps the university should consider the root cause of why students are stealing. the lines in Trabant can be very long-- especially at peak hours. Why? Only 1-2 registers are open! Students don't want to wait or have the time, so they resort to this kind of behavior. Perhaps a better use of staffing during peak times and a more carefully planned layout will assist in reducing theft as well. Just a thought.
Anonymous
Fri Mar 2 2012 00:48
Dean Harker, and Attorney General "Beau",
Having looked at the University of Delaware police reports, I have never seen anything like it...where two security guards really just make things up on police reports. And then have a "trustworthy" witness call in, and all three of them lie about everything. Then these two security guards at the University of Delaware write it up in their police reports...All lies. How can anybody honestly trust them. As God is my witness these Security Guards at the University of delaware are doing just that, lying on police reports, and knowingly taking false testimony. They are manufacture crime. All the while the professor at the University of Delaware are studying corruption up the street and down the street. It's three of them at the University of Delaware...I guess they call "organized cause stalking, or organized terror stalking". Those three are all the same age, they know each other, and all drink beer at the IRON HILL. Who would question them, and then they gives these lies to a public defender and a specific prosecutor over in the Delaware superior court in Wilmington. Then these guys all together throw the client/defendant under the bus. And they all know they have already lied about the person on the police reports from the University of Delaware. How is that right when these people we count on throw one individual under the bus who is not guilty. It's sick! How can anybody trust Delaware Criminal system Judge jerome O. Herlihy, and attorney General "Beau"? How can anybody trust your courts, and your security guards at the university of delaware. How can anybody trust your prosecutors or your public defenders? They are all liars. It a fixed casino Dean Harker, and Ogden. It's corruption, and police misconduct. You have seen it judge jerome O. Herlihy with your own eyes. Thank you for allowing me to express my freedom of speech through the freepress.
Anonymous
Thu Mar 1 2012 23:47
Dear Judge Jerome O. Herlihy, attorney general "Beau" of Delaware, Forensic psychologist Dr. Robert G. Thompson, Attorney Natalie Woolshin esq. U.S. attorney general honorable Eric Holder Jr. and dean HARKER,
This is true, and I am expressing my freedom of speech through freedom of the press. You better believe those security guards at the University of delaware are watching you. They are watching arright! You should be honest Ogden, and Harker, and tell the students how your University of security is stalking individuals on campus. And stalking individuals off campus. The professors of criminology at the University of Delaware know what it is called, "organized cause stalking, organized terror stalking". Did you tell the students, staff, and the people of delaware how two security guards, and a "trustworthy" witnessed stalked that professor up in Lancaster County? In all honesty, did you tell the community of the University of delaware how those security guards lied on police reports, fabricated evidence, knowingly took false testimony, electonically harassed, agitated, and provoked, and engaged in "felony" retaliation of a whistleblower. Did you tell the community how the prosecutor and public defender attempted to slip it past judge, the honorable Jerome O. herlihy on that late december of 2010? The judge and the forensic psychologist, and the former attorney private attorney Natalie Woolshin figured out something was going on. Everyboby stated it was wierd, stange, and it all didn't make sense. Why would an ex-soldier at 36 years old come into lancaster and be nuts, have schzophrena, and lie about being stalked and harassed. He didn't. The ex-soldier told the truth, and reported to the Pa governors office of the PHRC and EEOC. Those case number are as followed: PHRC Case No.200800802 and EEOC Case No.17F200960328. The FBI, the Pa state troopers on the scene, the judge, and forsenics psychologist at new castle psych clinic in Delaware. We all figured it out. We have a time-line, the court transcripts, diaries, journals, and the police reports from the University of delaware. When things are given piecemeal people appear to be guilty, but when the sum total is given to you judge jerome O. Herlihy, the fbi, the ACLU, the forensic psychologist, and ethical attorney we call it organized cause stalking. Organized gang stalking. Did you tell the pubic how the oranized cause stalkers at the University of Delaware hurried up and called a freemason at the Lancaster newspaper and reported lies to the freemason? Did you tell them how the freemason ad crable at the lancaster newspaper quickly posted the lies on the internet about the professor 12x. It's called organized cause stalking, grandpa used to call it "the white glove treatment" but now we got the internet and everybody knows what organized gang stalking, community based mobbing, organized cause stalking, academic mobbing, and corporate stalking is....dont we OGDEN and HARKER. You better believe those security guards are watching you through those cameras...thank you for allowing me to tell the truth through freedom of speech, and through the freedom of the press. Thank god we still have that in this country.
Anonymous
Thu Mar 1 2012 14:56
This is a true story. You think they aren't watching you throught those cameras, Oh yes those university of delaware security guards are....Aren't they OGDEN and HARKER???
Continued from below. The sad thing about stalking the girl through the camera is the organized cause stalking will not end with the student. They will then find who her boyfriend is. And the security at the University of Delaware along with a "trustworthy" witness will find out where the boyfriend works, where the boyfriend lives, and what the boyfriends daily habits are. These University of Delaware security guards will then find out where the student's, who they been watching through the cameras, boyfriend is employed. They will find out her boyfriend is a teacher at a community college up in Lancaser pennsylvania. So what your University of Delaware security guards will do is communicate with the security guards at the community college where her boyfriend works. These security guards will then hack into the teacher computer, harass him, and stalk him. Send students into attack him. Make up stuff and tell his neighbors he is dangerous, a predator, or simply a bad person under investigation. After a year of the mobbing and work harassing the boyfriend of the girl, who has watched through the cameras and stalked through the camera by the University of Delaware security. The boyfriend, who is teacher, will file a formal "good faith" complaint detailing the harassment, and discrimination to the Pennsylvania governors office of the Human Relations Commission and EEOC. The day after the formal "good faith complaint reaches the school the University of Delaware security will then start stalking him by cell phone (electronically harassment) and harassing him with phone calls and cell phone text messages. After ten months of doing to the teacher, they will then make up a story that the pacifest teacher, who never owned a gun is dangerous and has weapons. They will then bust in house, and steal books, pile his ex-girlfriends gifts of polo shirts up in the bed, and take his three U.S.army medals awarded to him from his three honorable discharges laying on his dresser. A Pa state troopers will watch them. A state, " i have never seen anything like this. They were taking picture of house, walking to neighbor houses in the middle of the summer who they knew were home. 90% of the stuff they took had nothing to do with any charges. This is weird. this doesn't make any sense." then these security from the university of delaware will call a freemason from the lancaster paper named Ad crable and he will black ball the teacher by putting lies about him on the internet. Ad crable "the freemason" will place the teacher on the internet 12x, black balling him. Then when the teacher appears before Judge jerome O. Herlihy of the superior court in wilmington delaware the judge will say, "this doesn't make any sense, why are security guards from the University of Delaware heading up to lancaster pa. Get rid of your attorney. He is no good. He isn't helping you. There is nothing wrong with you. where did you get this attorney? What is he whispering to you. What did he say? tell me. You are not dangerous and I am certainly not going to put you in jail. Jail is for dangerous people. This is weird. This happened in lancaster but you are from york. this doesn't make any sense?" Your response "That because the security guards at the University of delaware along with a "trustworthy" witness are cause stalking, and harassing people and setting them up for crime your honor" And when this information is given to an FBI agent he will say, "my god you got a lot of stuff. This is weird. What are security guards from the University of Delaware heading to lancaster for anyway. this does make any sense." "felony" retaliation of a whistle. Police misconduct. Malicious prosecution by a public defender and prosecutor. Lies riddled on police reports. Fabricate evidence, false testimony from trustworthy witness who lie, and corruption. Thank you for allowing me to express my freedom of speech throught the freepress, free of any further retaliation for blowing the whistle and telling the truth...
Anonymous
Thu Mar 1 2012 01:13
You bet the University of Delaware security is watching you through those cameras. They have nothing better to do, but to watch you through those cameras. Sit at the same place once. Get their attention behind the cameras. Be a pretty young girl. They are watching you arright, and they will get your cell phone number, your email address, find out what kind car you drive, where you live, where you eat, and where you hang out, and watch you, and stalk you retlentlessly for months. You will never even know it is going....unless you keep journals and dairies. Or unless you file a formal "good faith" complaint against somebody. A whistleblower complaint will force the stalkers out. And then get examined by a forensic psychologist, who is also a criminologist...so they don't try to say you are nuts or have schzophrena. Isn't that right HARKER, and OGDEN? You will feel like somebody is watching, but when you look through the rare view mirror... there will nobody there. Security guards are notorious for cause stalking individuals. They have nothing better to do, and an unlimited amount of time to do it in. You think this is lie...I would never lie to the press. It's an epidemic! The ACLU is saying organized gang stalking is an epidemic. The FBI gets about 150,000 organized terror stalking complaints a year. But there are more!!! The FBI in philly has been alerted by president Obama, and there are hundreds of thousands of hits all over the internet where people are stating they are being cause stalked and terror stalked by groups such as security guards, members of neighborhood watch groups, rogue freemasons, volunteer firemen, and bizarre people who just get off on group stalking individuals. Very rarely is a single person an obessesed stalkers, but it is easy for law enforcement agents, who are working in organized gang stalking groups to set a person up for fake stalking charges, and false harassment charges. You have to work on a person, harass them for months, ware them down, and then you set them up...Isn't that right HARKER, and OGDEN??? It's very easy when you mob and harass a person for months, and get the target individual to the point where they are unaware what is going on, and nobody is communicating with them. Then you set them up for false stalking charges and fake harassment charges..."Felony" retaliation of a whistleblower. Thank you for allowing me to express my freedom of speech through the freepress.
Anonymous
Wed Feb 29 2012 23:40
Congratulations to the most corrupt and most scandalous University security department on the entire North American continent. To the biggest liars that ever dawned a college security uniform. There you have it folks, outside of the University of Delaware security lying on police reports, fabricating evidence, engaging in community based mobbing and lying, Knowingly taking false testimony from "trustworthy" witness who are lying about everything, electonically stalking and harassing a whistleblower under the cover of a organized cause stalking investigation for ten months, manufacturing crimes against whistleblowers, and retaliating against whistleblowers in other states, Taunting whistleblowers, busting into pacifest professor house's, who never owned a gun, on false pretenses of being dangerous and having weapons, blackballing whistleblower with Freemasons at the Lancaster paper, lying to the press on all accounts, engaging in corruption through the prosecutor, and the public defenders offices right in front of Judge Jerome O. Herlihy of the Delaware superior court in Wilmington, we have now reached a new zenith in the dispectable, disgusting, and disturbing behavior of the University of Delaware security department. Now HARKER and OGDEN can sit down behind a camera and eat doughnuts, and cheese sandwiches, and watch students scratch their butts, and eat chicken nuggets. Don't we all feel safer??? Thanks for allowing me to express my freedom of speech through the freepress.




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