With schools being the target of much harrowing violence for more than a decade, students, faculty, and people in the community deserve the right to know what types of crimes are occurring on campus.

Federal funded colleges and universities are to make public the reported cases of criminal activity on their campus and in their community, which is stated in the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.

According to El Camino district crime statistics, crime on campus and around the community has considerably gone down.

“We have more cadets and officers,” EC Police Chief Michael Trevis said. “We’re trying to be more visible.”

Motor vehicle theft is the the most reported crime on campus and has decreased over the past years from 12 thefts in 2010, 13 in 2011, and only three in 2012 and zero in non-campus buildings, according to the same report.

As crime continues to decrease year by year, students on campus are feeling safer.

“It’s good to know that crime has decreased on campus even though I felt safe when I started my college career in 2011,” Herbert Maduekwe, 24, health administration major, said. “I’ve always felt safe here.”

The ECPD work around the clock to keep the campus safe as possible and its presence on a daily basis has not gone unnoticed.

“Basically, everywhere you walk you’re going to see a police officer or two in uniform patrolling the campus either walking or driving in their car or cart,” Kenneth Murphy, 23, computer engineering major, said.

People will always commit a crime and they will do it here on campus, Keyana Holloway, 18, psychology major, said.

Trevis added the faculty, staff, and students deserve credit for keeping the campus as safe as it can be.

“It is impossible for the police to catch every crime committed on campus,” Holloway said. “However, it is up to us to help them out in order to keep our school safe by reporting various crimes committed.”

Trevis said the idea of seeing something and saying something is still important.

“That’s our goal,” Trevis said, “to make campus safer.”