[MarkusQ]

Sounds like security cameras.

I'll bet they installed smoke detectors and emergency lighting and all sorts of other things without telling students either.

[pjjpo]

I had my PS2 stolen from a dorm at the other SD university. More security cameras would have been a great thing at the time.

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

More cameras does not equal more security. They aren't put there to protect your property in the same way that HR departments don't exist to protect employees.

[MarkusQ]

No, they're put there to collect grainy images of the perpetrator to distribute after the shooting. It's sad/ineffectual, but still far less nefarious than TFA makes it sound.

[2muchtime]

What’s the other SD university?

[RetroTechie]

There's also the principle of proportionality.

Is this institution's campus such a dangerous / crime-ridden area that it warrants 1,300 cameras to track everyone everywhere @ all times? Hmm...

[MarkusQ]

Right. 1,300 cameras for over 50,000 people in a hundred or so multi-story buildings spread over a couple of hundred acres...seems proportionate. It's maybe a dozen cameras per building on average?

I'm not a fan of surveillance per se, but acting like this is disproportionate is just silly.