Starting this week, a team of private security guards will patrol the south side of the University of California Berkeley campus. They were hired by a group of concerned parents.
BERKELEY -- The guards will work from 6:30 at night to 3 a.m., focusing on patrolling three main dorm buildings and the surrounding area. Cal parents who are part of a group called Safe Bears say this is long overdue but some wonder if it will really make the streets safer.Rebekah, who declined to provide her last name, studies electronic engineering.
'Safe Bears raised $40,000 to pay for the security guards. Some patrol on foot around the dorms and others are on bikes to cover a wider area. The pilot program though will only last until March 23. After that, the hope is that the university will take over.'We want to, frankly, turn up the heat with the administration,' Jethani said. 'We want to show that we're not content to just wait forever to have these safety ambassadors deployed.
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