Abigail Scheg
GE 102
18 November 2014
Making ECSU Safer for Students Elizabeth City State University, located in Northeastern North Carolina, has been victim to a lot of violence in recent years. These crimes have put students’ lives at risk; in recent events, an unknown person came on campus and started shooting, and luckily that day no one got injured. Another incident happened in 1984 when a female student was beaten and hanged in her dorm room. These are some examples of crimes that have happened on the university campus. While away at college, a student or parent should not have to worry constantly about a college campus not being safe and the safety of their child. It is up to the school faculty and leaders to help provide a safe environment for the students. The school should enforce security, have surveillance cameras, and checkpoints for visitors who come on campus, in order to make Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) a safer school. Campus security is one of the most important units on the school ground because they are the main ones who are going to prevent crimes from happening or escalating Now, if the security on campus is not up to par, the school will have to worry about the wrong people getting onto campus, and will be able to prevent any unlawful activity on campus. So, in order for the college campus to maintain a safe environment there should be more security which means the school should hire more trained personnel. There should be standards given to campus police that they should abide by, and that is they should be serious about their job, physical fit, and know all their duties as a police officer. In order to have top security for the school you must first have the top police officers to work. ECSU security is not strong as it could be. On the school website under campus security it lists a lot of things the campus has done in order to make ECSU safer. Some of them were providing safety tips, Campus Authority