The shooter walking around campus

Yes, that sounds melodramatic, but that really happened.

What is remarkable about this occurrence is that there seems to be, to date, no campus video recording of the perpetrator's presence on the Brown campus.

Why not?

Can just anyone who might be, and indeed was, a person out to harm students, enter the campus and leave no identifiable trace?

(Yes, that seems to be exactly what happened.)

Why was the Brown security system so inadequate?

 (BTW, 2025-26 tuition at Brown is $71.7K.

https://admission.brown.edu/tuition-aid/tuition-fees

One would think that would pay for pretty damn good security.)

The following post suggests an all too plausible explanation for Brown's security failure:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/12/17/brown-university-received-a-letter-from-34-human-rights-groups-in-august-requesting-they-disable-their-cctv-system/