Surveillance cameras necessary

Pierce College, the jewel of the Los Angeles Community College District, is becoming more and more tarnished with every week due to mounting budget concerns.

But as your mother always told you, there are some things that you simply can’t skimp on. Deodorant, food, toilet paper–you get the point.

One of those items is campus safety.

The good people over at the sheriff’s station are working desperately to ensure our safety, but they are fighting with both hands tied behind their backs.

Pierce College, the second largest and most populated campus in the district, has one of the least effective security camera systems.

Couple this with the fact that we are also the only college campus in the district who has lost their cadet program (thus far), and we have the makings of a terrible tragedy.

So let’s review– we have 426 acres, 23,000 students, an extremely small contingent of dedicated officers, zero cadets, and a camera system that only covers a tiny amount of our campus.

Are you scared yet?

How about if you’re the poor student whose car got stolen out of Parking Lot 7 earlier this semester?

No cameras mean they couldn’t even get a description of whoever