More Crazy Brown Stuff: Did the University Disable Some CCTV at Urging of Lefties to Thwart ICE?

Unlikely, I say.

But something's rotten in Providence, alright...or so it seems.

They apparently hadn't even started to interview eyewitnesses yesterday--or so I read.

And they seem to be cagey about a lot of things.

Now, look: 

I saw a partial map showing webcam fields of view. The building in which the murders took place didn't have any. Apparently it's old. People are freaking out about the fact that ZOMG SOME PARTS OF CAMPUS ARE NOT UNDER CONSTANT VIDEO SURVEILLANCE!!!111

What??

Some people write as if universities are under some obvious obligation to surveil all students 24/7. What can these people possibly be thinking?

My reaction: bad luck that the killer fell between these cracks.

Now:

Apparently some far lefty group demanded that the university shut down its cameras because student protestors have a right to privacy and can't be photographed. Here they claimed SCOTUS had ruled this...but the link just went to another lefty screed by the same group. (Hint: there's no way that SCOTUS ruled that. If they're protesting in public, they have no reasonable expectation of privacy.) But: they also mention thwarting ICE.

Now:

If Brown did disable cameras that would have caught the shooter, and they did do it at the urging of leftist lunatics...and especially if they did it in part to thwart ICE...then that's going to be a PR nightmare for them. And they deserve it. They deserve to pay the price for allowing themselves to be shoved around by lefty lunatics and their pet causes.

But: unless Providence is a notably violent place (note: I have no idea whether it is or not), or they have some other reason to think that it was important to have CCTV everywhere...I really don't see that the university actually deserves a lot of blame for this.

But I haven't thought about this much.