Bakersfield College Safety

I am writing you regarding important issues that have come to students’ attention. There have been multiple incidents that have taken place at the Bakersfield College that are very serious. The incidents include many problems with criminal activity on the campus as well as outside of the campus. Furthermore, students taking night classes at Bakersfield College say it is very dark and creepy at night due to low lighting. Also many female students feel unsafe walking by themselves at night. The issue of safety needs to be addressed because many women have had problems with harassment in the college as well as outside of the Bakersfield College along with theft in the parking lots. Bakersfield College needs to improve its security by adding cameras, more lights, and security officers.
Safety is an important issue for a college campus, and further procedures need to be taken to prevent crimes from happening, which is why the campus should have cameras in parking lots. It is not an invasion of privacy to put cameras in parking areas because it is a public parking lot. During this last year, we have had a lot of …show more content…
Officers should park their cars in the entrance areas and at the parking lots that should help control the criminal activity and ensure the safety of students and staff. Security walking around campus, especially in the afternoon helps decrease criminal activity: the more officers, the better. Officers should also add emergency buttons all around the campus. That way if a security issue comes up, a student will only have to press the button and security officers will know where to go if there is an emergency. This type of button is also referred to as the panic button because it alerts officers of an emergency. It also gives the location of the emergency because of the light flashing. California State University of Bakersfield uses this type of security system on their