Sadly, some of the largest cities are infested with high crime rates and, worse, burdened by administrations that enable criminal behavior by not prosecuting the guilty and often punishing innocent victims. This level of administrative dysfunction requires much greater steps be taken to protect the school bus video camera recording systems than those districts that actually enforce the laws and hold people accountable for their actions.

Some districts, like Atlanta, require the school bus camera recorder (aka DVR) to be protected in a steel lockbox to keep vandals and criminals from accessing the video file. The lockbox is mounted directly on the dash for superior access. The main problem with this is that short drivers may sit so low in the seats that the lockbox might obstruct the view of the front of the bus. ​

Those not willing to enforce the laws and who tolerate vandalism would be best served by choosing an industrial-grade solution like the Professional Industrial Grade School Bus Video Surveillance Camera Solutions, which are fully enclosed in a steel locking DVR enclosure and, unlike almost all others, are waterproof, so even those who hose out the buses do not inadvertently destroy thousands of dollars of digital video school bus camera equipment while cleaning out the bus.