Ex-Public Safety officer offers solution

As a former member of Public Safety I can tell you this: There is a key concept that has eluded the Public Safety department when I worked there and it would seem apparent that it continues today, will continue tomorrow and in the future until it is addressed.

Let us start with the core meaning of the word. Public Safety, as I see it, is the duty to provide for the safety of students and professional staff as well.

How is it done? By patrolling both in vehicles as well as on foot. There are benefits in doing things this way. By utilizing vehicles in an unfixed manner you can mix things up by not being so predictable. Patrolling by vehicle should be done at different intervals of time, from different directions and by rotating officers everyso-often as different officers have different routines. Utilizing officers on foot again by rotating them in and out of the dorm, provides the department and the campus in general with different approaches, tactics and habits.

Public Safety should not be predictable if the goal is to be effective.

Open your eyes people! You