It cripples us. Police said thieves increasingly are targeting schools and stealing computers. Police recovered most of that equipment and charged three men.
Property crime is a big problem everywhere, but it has never gotten the attention.
The computer room was protected by metal grates over the louvers, a dead-bolt lock and a roving campus security guard, but had no alarm, Elliott said. Officials said that the school's name was on each computer and that the computers require a password for use. Yesterday, police notified Oahu pawnshops to be on the lookout for the stolen iMac computers. Students returning to class Monday were shocked to discover that the computers had been stolen, said Joyce Higashi, Campbell's computer coordinator. The school's 2,400 students relied on the iMac computers for word processing, multimedia presentations, research projects and the accessing the Internet.