Feelin' safe now!

[Broomjockey]

So at about 1:00 a.m. a student entered the residence and tells me he and his g/f were robbed at BIG knife point. We've not had a situation like that before, so we're a little disorganized, but we get the basics. We call campus security, ask them to send someone over as well as call 911. While co-worker does that I try calling one boss-person, get their voicemail, get told by co-worker that our one summer RA is out of town, and then call my direct boss and finally get ahold of him. He tells me to call the person who's out of town and she'll decide if to call the person who's voicemail I got.

During all this, the guy tries to make a call, and ends up going up to his room to make the call. Campus security calls us back and says that the resident needs to call 911. Long story shorter, campus security shows up the same time as the police do (after he called them, and had to give the address multiple times). Over half an hour later. And they weren't doing some sort of sweep to see if everything was okay, because at no point did they get a description of the suspect, or where it happened, or which way the guy went.

To summarize: It took campus security over half an hour to walk 2 buildings over, and these are the people who we're supposed to call first, who are supposed to decide if police involvment is required. Next time I'm calling the police first.

[Andara Bledin]

Oh, yeah, they seem really on the ball. I'd feel real secure around them.

I'm with you. If the police can get there in the same amount of time it takes campus cops, then the real cops get called first.

^-.-^

[Spiffy McMoron]

To summarize: It took campus security over half an hour to walk 2 buildings over, and these are the people who we're supposed to call first, who are supposed to decide if police involvment is required.

Heh. Sounds like your campus security is about as useful as our campus security. I've spent alot of time on campus, and I'll I've seen them do it drive around in their cruiser and harass one kid about whether or not he was old enough to smoke.

[PuckishOne]

On the campus of my alma mater there was recently a shooting...a woman was killed by an ex-boyfriend. The guy just walked into her building, went to her office, and shot her. The campus police basically said there was nothing they could have done, despite the fact that she had made all the necessary reports to them concerning his harassment of her leading up to the murder. Then the university had the gall to say that they wouldn't be organizing any kind of escort service for students due to lack of resources. (Needless to say, there was enough of an uproar over that and they quickly backpedaled and instituted just such a service.)

Apparently it is too much to ask a large, prominent university to circulate photographs and/or bulletins to its gate security staff in the interest of public safety.

[FuzzyKitten99]

You would think that after teh V-tech incident, school campuses would be better prepared. I would think that they would even want to run drills for basic safety points.

[auntiem]

My SO works at a university and all the employees have to do a safety/security training session yearly - does yours not? That would have given you a better procedure to follow so you didn't get stuck calling all those people. I think you should be able to rely on campus security, in this situation, to hold the person until the police came if you had caught him, but they should have come right away to search the area for him themselves at the very least.

PuckishOne - sadly, legally I don't think they could have done that (circulating pix), but if she called security to have him removed if she saw him then they can do that if he was violating a restraining order. Restraining orders aren't worth diddlybupkiss except maybe to add a year or two to the time he'll serve for her murder - they don't do anything to actually protect people.