CU Boulder Cocaine/Drugs

[ucbalumnus]

@blossom

So the campus police are in charge of campus. This both distorts the crime statistics (if a kid is mugged walking from the chem lab to the dorm, but it’s on a main road which “counts” as the town, not campus, is it really a mugging?) AND makes it harder for prosecution. There will be zero effort made to follow protocol w/r/t chain of evidence, securing a physical location, interviewing eyewitnesses, etc. […] Campus police and security guards do many things well. But they aren’t trained the way a local police force is.

Wouldn’t it matter whether the campus security is an actual police department (or branch of one) or not?