Security Urges Marist Students to Lock Their Cars

Photo by Greta Stuckey ‘23

In a recent interview, Associate Director of Security and Safety Brian Dolansky stressed the importance of student vigilance in preventing an ongoing crime around campus. 

Dolansky said that the recent pattern of car burglaries “is the primary issue we’ve been dealing with since Parents’ Weekend.”

Dolansky then elaborated on the specifics of the crimes, explaining that the burglaries had not been committed by bypassing vehicle locks and gaining entry into students’ cars. “It appears that what they’re doing is not breaking into the vehicles but capitalizing on those left unlocked; the perpetrators search for unlocked cars and then root around for loose change and other valuables in the ones they find unlocked. We haven’t really seen any cases of people jemmying locks or anything like that,” Donalsky explained.

Students can be assured of security’s responsive action, as Dolansky went into further detail on Marist Security’s ongoing effort to prevent future burglaries of students’ cars. “We’ve been coordinating with the local police, and we have regular security patrols around campus, both covert and overt,” Dolansky said. 

“It’s a crime of opportunity when people aren’t locking their cars, which is why we want the student body to be careful and make sure to lock their vehicles,” Dolansky said. “We’re doing everything that we can, and we want the student body to do everything that they can.”