New cameras watch over Trabant
Published: Monday, February 27, 2012
Updated: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 03:02
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.
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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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...
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.
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.
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...

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