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New safety measures in place at Arizona State University
ABC15 ^ | Aug 19, 2015 | Justin Pazera

Posted on 08/19/2015 4:05:03 PM PDT by donna

TEMPE, AZ - The Arizona State University Police Department is ready for this year’s round of students.

More than 80,000 start classes Thursday and police want them to stay safe. This year students can request a security escort from their cell phone on the school’s Live Safe app.

Friends and family can also track a student’s steps with GPS. “It kind of leaves bread crumbs as you can see them walking to their location,” says Sergeant Daniel Macias with ASU Police. “In addition, what happens when you get there, you press one button and that says I’m home.”

Macias says a friend or family member in another state can also have the app and watch the student’s location.

Several hundred emergency call boxes are also around the campus. Even though some universities are looking at phasing them out with the popularity of cell phones, ASU says they are staying.

“We just want to get our information out there to make sure they have all the avenues of getting a hold of the police department should they need us,” says Macias.


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: gps; university
Boo!!!
1 posted on 08/19/2015 4:05:03 PM PDT by donna
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To: donna

That’s excellent. Now they can lock their prey (”students”) in an airtight bubble, all the better for the brainwashing they are about to receive.


2 posted on 08/19/2015 4:19:37 PM PDT by NYAmerican
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To: donna
family can also track a student’s steps with GPS.

Maybe its just me, but this sounds really disturbing. If you have parents who want to log in to see exactly where you are in college, you have problems.

3 posted on 08/19/2015 4:30:09 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard; NYAmerican
Isn't this bizarre?

Students will be getting backup phones to fool their keepers.

Or maybe, girls will just volunteer to wear hijabs as they walk to the drunken orgies, ha.

4 posted on 08/19/2015 5:13:12 PM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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Prototype of the kind of control that governments the world over— and the tyrannies in America— are lusting over. This is their future. Will you put on your chains? These fools will do it gladly.


5 posted on 08/19/2015 7:02:35 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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We seem to look for ways to enslave ourselves.

And, fearfulness comes with it. Believe it or not, I don’t have a cell phone and never plan to. But, now that I’m older, I borrow one when I go shopping alone in case the car breaks down. I’ve become timid!


6 posted on 08/19/2015 8:24:31 PM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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a student guy could know at all times where the girl of his creepy dreams is? fail!


7 posted on 08/20/2015 8:08:46 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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