Six cars were broken into and vandalized in the Cerritos College parking lot located near Cerritos College campus police department on Tuesday night.

Cerritos College student Carolina Romero’s car was one of the six with shattered windows.

Romero feels there isn’t enough security in the parking lots. “I rarely see anyone patrolling, especially at night in the big parking lots. . .” Romero said in a letter to the Talon Marks editor.

Due to this incident, Romero refused to attend classes because of fear that her car would be broken into again after having it repaired for a cost of over a thousand dollars.

“These parking lots are very safe. Anytime you have big parking lots you’re going to have incidences where a car was broken into,” responded police Lt. Richard Bukowiecki of Cerritos College campus police department, to the incident.

“Anywhere that has a whole bunch of people parking is gonna cars being broken into. No matter how much security we put out there, there is no way to prevent all of the crime,” Bukowiecki added, sympathizing with Romero.

The police department assured that they do everything they can to make the students feel safer during day and night but preventing 100% of crime is unlikely.

The recently added police towers, about 4 years old, hold police personnel from 7 in morning to 11 at night.

Anywhere around thirteen police cars patrol the lots for traffic control and plans are being made to add more towers, including one for Falcon Way road.

Statistics show the average number of cars being stolen dropped since the addition of the towers.

Before the addition of the towers in 1998, the average number of cars being stolen out of Cerritos College parking lots was about 40 a year.

After the addition, the average dropped to three to five a year.