Lot 59 is the largest of all the parking lots at ASU. This lot has 6,171 parking spaces in and it also has a structure parking area to. This parking lot is also the furthest lot from the center of the university. This lot also contains Frank Kush Stadium, Well Fargo Arena, the baseball field, and it also contains the track and field stadium. With all the activities that could be going on in this area you would think that they would have a pretty decent amount of cameras out there. Between school functions and just school class going on there could be people and cars in these parking lot almost all day long.

When I first started doing this project I thought that most of the cameras would be focused around all the sporting facilities. I thought that ASU would be more worried about their facilities and not so worried about the people and the people’s belongings. I thought that the angles the cameras would be looking are in the direction of the stadiums and not really looking at the parking lot itself.

I asked a few people a simple question. What do you think the functions of the cameras are in lot 59? I received a wide range of answers. Most of the people that I asked didn’t even know that there were cameras in or around the lot. They thought that they just had the blue light call system. One of the people that I asked said that the cameras were there to make us feel save and that they weren’t even working. A couple of the people said that these cameras were in place to watch over the parking lot and make sure that nothing happens. It is weird because the reason that I thought the camera was there was because of the sporting facilities and not one person said that when I asked them the question. This is why I wanted to get the opinion of some of my fellow students because they have different opinions about things and I wanted to see what they were.

The findings were quiet interesting in the fact that there weren’t as many cameras as I thought there was going to be. I counted a total of 13 cameras in the area. This included 3 that were on top of the North side of the football field, 6 total that were on Packard Drive 3 on each side of the road, 4 that were on the football field side of Rio Saldo, and 3 total in the lot that is nest to the Tempe Town Lake. I found this to be odd that they only have 3 in the biggest of all the lots of 59 and the lot that is furthest from the campus. It looked like the types of cameras that were being used were one that could move. These cameras were placed on the entrance/exit in the parking lot on the street. So it looks to me that these cameras are looking over the parking lot and not the sporting facilities. So this would prove my hypothesis wrong. It looks to me that these cameras are in deed set up for the safety of the students and not for ASU property. This would be different then others in my group because for the most part they came to the conclusion that the cameras they looked at were for the protection of the property and not for the safety of the students.