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Students have been complaining more and more about stolen property.
學生們一直在抱怨越來越多的財產被盜事件。
Radios, cell phones, bicycles, pocket calculators and books have all been reported stolen. Are there enough campus police to do the job?
收音機、手機、自行車、袖珍計算器和書籍都被報失過，有足夠多的校園警察工作嗎？
There are 20 officers in the Campus Security Division. Their job is to handle crime, accidents, lost and found items and traffic problems on campus.
校園安全部門里有20名警察。他們的工作是處理犯罪、意外事故、遺失物品和校園里的交通問題。
More than half of their time is spent directing traffic and writing parking tickets.
他們一半以上的時間是在指揮交通和寫停車票。
Responding promptly to accidents and other emergencies is important, but it is their smallest job.
及時反應處理突發事件是很重要的，但這只占他們工作的一小部分。
Dealing with crime takes up the rest of their time. Very rarely do any violent crimes actually occur.
處理犯罪占用他們剩余的時間。暴力引發的犯罪很少發生。
In the last five years, there have been no murders, seven robberies and about 60 other violent attacks, most of these involving fights at parties.
過去的五年，這里沒有謀殺，有七次搶劫及大約60次其它的暴力襲擊，大多數涉及派別斗爭。
On the other hand, there have been hundreds of thefts and cases of deliberate damaging of public property, which usually involves breaking windows or lights, or writing on walls.
另一方面，有幾百件盜竊和蓄意破壞公共財產的案件，通常包括打破窗戶、燈或在墻上寫字。
The thefts are not the carefully planned burglaries that you see in movies.
小偷的盜竊行為不像你在電影中看到的那樣精心策劃。
Things get stolen when it's easy to steal them, because they are left lying around unwatched.
他們偷走容易偷的東西，因為東西就放在那里無人看管。
Do we really need more police?
我們真的需要更多的警察嗎？
Hiring more campus police will cost money, possibly making our tuition go up again.
雇用更多的校園警察將花費金錢，有可能使我們的學費再漲。
A better way to solve this problem might be for all of us to be more careful with our things.
解決這個問題更好辦法可能是我們應該小心看管好自己的東西。
