<p>YouTube</a> - Safety concerns on the campus of William and Mary</p>
<p>..and scary.</p>
<p>Oh, I don’t know, that was a while ago. I lived in the complex where all the robberies were happening, and I never felt unsafe. They were happening really late at night, which means that someone was letting them in, so in all likelihood it was students doing the rummaging. </p>
<p>It wouldn’t even be happening if students actually locked their doors at night, which some people rarely do because it’s so safe on campus.</p>
<p>yea… non issue, IMO</p>
<p>It <em>was</em> creepy - and given the fact that the card reader system should have been able to see who swiped into where, when, and since multiple buildings were involved, determining who was involved should’ve been fairly easy - so the fact no one was arrested is curious. Maybe I’m over-estimating the capability of the card entry system, but I don’t think so … </p>
<p>My best theory is that the perpetrator was either a freshman/transfer, (that is, new to the school) who <em>were</em> more or less identified by the use of their card, and were “encouraged” to quietly leave school, (or perhaps, left of their own accord.) Second theory, someone who found/stole a student ID that wasn’t disabled and used that for access until it was locked out. I find that less likely. </p>
<p>Whatever really happened, it stopped as quickly as it started, and to my knowledge, never resumed. As stated, a complete non-issue, W&M has to be one of the safest campuses there is.</p>
<p>Last year, it seems a “lot” of mail destined for the College was going missing, or arrived missing things, like cash, gift cards, merchandise - even heard of mail arriving, obviously opened, with spent gift cards inside. Since it only seemed to affect mail, and not delivery services like UPS, it was probably happening in one of the US post offices along the way, and probably <em>not</em> the campus PO. That problem, too, seems to have quietly gone away.</p>
<p>Card reader isn’t going to show up if someone was letting them into the building. But anyway, it doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>The mail theft thing was an employee at the PO here who was found and fired. It doesn’t sound like they pressed criminal charges though, which is a shame.</p>
<p>[Mail</a> thief discovered, incident kept quiet by administration - News](<a href=“http://media.www.vainformer.com/media/storage/paper1335/news/2008/04/23/News/Mail-Thief.Discovered.Incident.Kept.Quiet.By.Administration-3372563.shtml]Mail”>http://media.www.vainformer.com/media/storage/paper1335/news/2008/04/23/News/Mail-Thief.Discovered.Incident.Kept.Quiet.By.Administration-3372563.shtml)</p>
<p>The room burglaries weren’t a big deal. They seem to have stopped, no one was physically threatened, and no one who bothered to lock his door was affected. The problem is that it’s so safe here people don’t even take basic security precautions.</p>
<p>Ah, I missed the employee being caught - tampering with the mail is a federal offense, they should really have pushed this harder (and if they bothered to tote up the total amount of losses, it certainly would’ve risen to felony amounts.) A public flogging at minimum, the creep. </p>
<p>As for the card reader - you’re correct, if you mean these were “tail-gaters”, where people allow people following close behind them to go inside without swiping. </p>
<p>The reason I suspect the administration “caught” the person is that it suddenly, and seemingly permanently, stopped. The brazen nature of the thefts suggests something more pathological than simple burglary, and in my mind, unlikely to simply stop of their own accord. And I suspected all along that this kind of thing would’ve been kept quiet by the administration at the time, for whatever reason you care to suppose. </p>
<p>Anyway, I’ll repeat the point, that as far as safety goes, I think W&M’s ranks around the average monastery …</p>