Campus Police and Semi-automatic Rifles

[cobrat]

All universities are concerned about their “image”. This is generating a lot of buzz locally and even nationally. I applaud Northeastern for doing what they feel is best to protect their community rather than debating how this will be negatively perceived by others and any negative effects it will have on their image. Northeastern’s campus police, like those at BU, MIT and Harvard, are fully trained and deputized police officers. They are not rent-a-cops.

I’d be more inclined to agree if NEU was a self-contained campus in a less densely populated area, not located in the midst of a densely populated urban neighborhood.

As such, I don’t blame the Boston Police department and possibly some neighbors living adjacent/near NEU having concerns as outlined below:

“What concerns the BPD is when we hear of certain campus police departments that are nestled within city neighborhoods making decisions like this without including the Boston Police and other community stakeholders,” the Boston Police Department told ABC News.

From their vantage point, it seems the BPD and neighbors living nearby/adjacent to NEU feel this action by NEU was done without adequate consultation or consideration of their concerns.