The article’s isn’t about whether campus cops should be armed at all or not.
Rather it’s whether the arms in the campus cop’s immediate arsenal should include more powerful/longer ranged semi-auto rifles.
It’s the latter issue which is being debated.
Secondly, an issue of this sort needs input from more than the groups named above…especially considering NEU’s campus is in a few densely populated urban neighborhoods.
What about the input from those neighborhoods’ residents living adjacent/near NEU’s campus or the BPD responsible for policing those neighborhoods? While private colleges can ignore them as it seems like BPD felt from their statement…doing so tends to exacerbate the separation and increase the likelihood of poor town-gown relations between the college and the local communities surrounding its campus.