Safety wasn’t something that Luke Swanson thought a lot about when he was deciding on where to go to college. Now in his third year at the University of Arizona, Swanson was applying to colleges during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. He wasn’t thinking about how much lighting the parking lots had or the blue light system. The Los Angeles native was just hoping that there wouldn’t be a major outbreak during his time studying architecture. “I heard there were some bike thefts here, but I wasn’t really thinking about safety issues,” he said. “I just didn’t really think about it.” It was about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, and the UA’s campus was cloaked in darkness. Swanson had joined the university’s Chief Safety Officer Steve Patterson, along with a handful of other students and some employees from the Campus Safety office on a nighttime walk.