School Bus Video Camera Systems in public, transit, shuttle, and school buses can help reduce operating costs due to vandalism, can help reduce driver accidents, can help ensure that those passengers transported act in a more responsible way due to the continuous recording of a surveillance video system which removes the veil of anonymity making people more accountable and legally responsible for their actions.


Bus Seat Vandalism Overview
The risks associated with student pupil transportation of children are much greater than those of other transportation markets due to the high value and irreplaceable nature of that cargo. Unlike other applications like Waste Collection Recycling Video Camera Surveillance Systems where the damage to the vehicle is the primary point of interest in an accident, transporting children needs to be done with at least the oversight and attention that our most important assets like cash, precious metals or VIPs are transported in the Armored Vehicle VIP Transport Video Camera Systems application.

The threats and potential losses to the city, county, or contract carriers from vandalism are much greater than in other industries.

Those who have studied Human Nature, and Deviant Behavior, can predict that a percentage of these student passengers will try to damage the bus in some childish, sociopathic, and often unlawful manner, trying to damage the bus that is transporting them.

The worst part about their bad behavior is that it can encourage other “good students” to participate in this unlawful vandalism in a pack mentality, greatly increasing the risk or damage to property, usually involving damage to the seat covers, causing massive expenses to the bus owner, contractor, or school district. This is the same problem faced by Casino Customer Transport shuttles, which offer free rides to the casino and back at the end of the night. The trip there is uneventful, but on the way home, statistically, most passengers may be drunk and broke and they take out their bad luck on the bus seats for spite and encourage others to do the same, causing tremendous damage to the bus seats.

Even if they are not successful in encouraging others to damage the vehicle, they may simply make others riding in the vehicle uncomfortable or fear for their safety in the case of gang members or bullies.

Vandalism is a costly and complex problem for bus owners, public schools, and Student Transportation Contract Carriers who operate them. Private Service Student Transportation Contract Carriers Chartered School Bus Camera Systems can help reduce the damage caused by students on their buses or at the minimum, document the damage so they can be held accountable.

Often the environment in which this pupil or student transportation occur involves children where there is such a heightened concern for the welfare and liability of those transported and with current policies of “Zero tolerance” often diametrically opposed to Political Correctness subjecting every action to intense scrutiny of those making the decisions, adding real-life consequences to work-related decisions, which can often be blown out of proportion by an out of control mainstream media salivating over their next persecution to keep the short attention span masses entertained and on the edge of their seats.

Transportation directors can at times, feel like the character “Damocles” in the Roman philosopher Cicero’s book of 45 B.C. “Tusculan Disputations.” When King Dionysius II offered to change places with Damocles, a court flatterer remarked how easy it must be to be the king. To demonstrate to Damocles, what it is really like to hold the power of the king, the king added a sharp sword hanging over his head when seated in the gold throne suspended by a single horsehair, later to be known as the “sword of Damocles”.

The moral of this story is: heavy is the burden of those who govern, those who often make important decisions, and in this case, the principle “Actions have consequences,” which is why often these acts of vandalism are not responded to because of the politically charged environment in which they occur as the penalty of making rash judgments when dealing with children, criminal allegations can be severe and costly in court, so in all cases the added “Expert Eye Video Witness” provided by a School Bus Video Camera System can provide sequential irrefutable video evidence proof what was claimed was accurate and in fact true.

Unlike human eyewitnesses, who can be accused of being biased, racist, prejudiced, homophobic, or intolerant….our Digital Expert Eye Witness School Bus Video Camera System cannot be found to have any of those biases, nor does it have any agenda other than documenting in a sequential manner what events occur on a vehicle.

In addition, the video file evidence it creates is time date-stamped for court use in litigation or defense of litigation plus to provide a “chain of custody” guideline often mandated for video evidence, there is a key locking SD card door, plus the files are heavily encrypted, one for the customer and an additional level of encryption that even the dealer cannot access, in the case of Capital crimes where the manufacturer is the only one who can verify the veracity of the files.

To demonstrate my rough learning curve over what it can be like in a transportation department of a large city school district, in the course of my work, I was thanked for our product's high-quality recording and shown a video of 3 early teen future inmates of the state correctional facility, as they ignited the rear seats of a new school bus, then as the seats in the back of the bus burst into flames they walk out past the cameras I installed to document child behavior problems in that bus, while they were laughing, giving the camera the bird and flashing gang signs at the cameras knowing full well they were being recorded.

When I asked what happened to these 3 stunning examples of urban intellectualism, I was told nothing. When I asked how that is possible when you have a clear video of multiple felonies on school property, including arson and destruction of property of at least 40,000 dollars, I was told we cannot do anything to them.

Not only were they not arrested, but their parents also were not notified, they were not suspended, not expelled, not put in Alternative Schools, no charges were filed.....nothing because they were under 16 years old. This was my first introduction to the complete chaos, dysfunction, and paralysis caused by Political Correctness in the public school system. When those in power to enforce the rules are incapable or unwilling to do so there is anarchy.

The reason I mention the above is because there is no point in spending tax dollars investing in bus video camera surveillance systems if your district or company management is not willing to provide consequences to the criminal actions of vandals who will destroy your bus seats, sell and use drugs in the back of the bus, those are just the video clips I have seen, there is no telling what was not forwarded to me. The systems we provide can document the activities and events of vandalism, but that is only part of the solution. The district or company management must be willing to use the video evidence obtained to enforce the law, enforce policy and maintain order among the children on school buses or this is a complete waste of time and a squandered investment.

The “Rule of Law” while sometimes twisted like a soft pretzel at Germany's Munich Oktoberfest, is still the foundation of Western Civilization. The products we provide help enforce the Rule of Law.
If your district or company will not enforce the laws, will not use the video evidence our School Bus Video Camera System can provide, will not hold accountable those who destroy public or private property, will let Political Correctness determine who cannot be charged with a crime, then our time and efforts would be better spent helping protect the interests of Elderly Day Care Shuttle & Assisted Living Transportation Vehicle Video Camera to help resolve issues that often arise when those of advanced years are often on mind-altering medications causing perceptions of events to be unclear, or Non-Emergency Medical Transport In-Vehicle Surveillance.


Children & Passenger Risk Issues 
The symbol from Ancient Greece we use today as Lady Justice is the Greek goddess Themis, blindfolded with no bias, weighing the scales of evidence impartially, but the sword she holds is double-edged, to protect the innocent and vanquish evil, represented by the snake she is standing upon.
In the same way, our School Bus Stop Arm Cameras are used to document unlawful passing of buses while loading to unloading children; our goal is likewise to provide a verifiable mechanism that can document as well as encourage potential problem passengers to be more responsible, respectful of the laws, less problematic, more conscious of School Bus Video Camera System that record their behaviors and not a risk to the safety of other students or destructive and costly vandalism of the vehicle they are riding in particularly the seats which seem to bear the brunt of most of the destructive tendencies of those with defective value systems, no conscience, nor respect for other peoples property or The Rule of Law.

Even children with proven physical or behavioral issues can be protected by these systems in the application of Alternative School & Juvenile Detention Bus Security Cameras.
It is our hope that with the support and oversight of management, most students who exhibit dangerous or unlawful behaviors and damage to the vehicle seats can be reminded with warning decals and by the drivers: “For your safety and security, this vehicle has a video surveillance system in use” recording what occurs on the vehicle.

These problems can begin early on when the children are very young, before they are even attending school, which is why there are now Head Start Pre-School Nursery School Child Safety Bus Camera Recorder system applications for the very young to help them learn quickly they should not engage in this form of vandalism early enough to prevent it from getting worse in the future. Nursery School Child Safety Bus Cameras can also help parents realize their children are doing something wrong as many do not believe they are capable of these behaviors until the Head Start Pre-School Bus Camera Recorder systems capture the video evidence and are presented with it.
Those transportation services who assist parents by providing shuttle service to and from school activities before and after school often employ our Before & After Care School Child Day Care Pickup In-vehicle Shuttle Safety Cameras in the child transport vehicles to ensure a non-biased Expert Digital Witness when claims are made of poor treatment or incidents need to be reviewed.


Should you have any questions or concerns or require more information about various applications or School Bus Video Camera system configurations, we encourage you to let us know and we will be happy to offer our 30+ years of market experience in sales and service of digital recording devices from Armored Vehicle Onboard Video Observation Surveillance to Industrial Lift Trucks (Forklifts) to respond to your concerns or questions.