Students have been complaining more and more about stolen property.
学生们一直在抱怨越来越多的财产被盗事件。
Radios, cell phones, bicycles, pocket calculators and books have all been reported stolen. Are there enough campus police to do the job?
收音机、手机、自行车、袖珍计算器和书籍都被报失过，有足够多的校园警察工作吗？
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.
校园安全部门里有20名警察。他们的工作是处理犯罪、意外事故、遗失物品和校园里的交通问题。
More than half of their time is spent directing traffic and writing parking tickets.
他们一半以上的时间是在指挥交通和写停车票。
Responding promptly to accidents and other emergencies is important, but it is their smallest job.
及时反应处理突发事件是很重要的，但这只占他们工作的一小部分。
Dealing with crime takes up the rest of their time. Very rarely do any violent crimes actually occur.
处理犯罪占用他们剩余的时间。暴力引发的犯罪很少发生。
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.
过去的五年，这里没有谋杀，有七次抢劫及大约60次其它的暴力袭击，大多数涉及派别斗争。
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，有几百件盗窃和蓄意破坏公共财产的案件，通常包括打破窗户、灯或在墙上写字。
The thefts are not the carefully planned burglaries that you see in movies.
小偷的盗窃行为不像你在电影中看到的那样精心策划。
Things get stolen when it's easy to steal them, because they are left lying around unwatched.
他们偷走容易偷的东西，因为东西就放在那里无人看管。
Do we really need more police?
我们真的需要更多的警察吗？
Hiring more campus police will cost money, possibly making our tuition go up again.
雇用更多的校园警察将花费金钱，有可能使我们的学费再涨。
A better way to solve this problem might be for all of us to be more careful with our things.
解决这个问题更好办法可能是我们应该小心看管好自己的东西。