Limiting Campus Police Jurisdiction A National Issue

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Campus police around the country are increasingly expanding their jurisdiction beyond the school and into the surrounding neighborhoods, blurring a town-gown divide that colleges say is arbitrary when it comes to crime.
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a proposed expansion of authority has stirred concerns in Washington, D.C., where residents say university police don't have the same level of training or transparency requirements as the city police. Campus police officers in the city have arrest powers on campus but participate in a separate, shorter training academy. And because private colleges generally aren't compelled by public records law to release the same information as public institutions and government agencies, some are concerned about a lack of accountability to the city and its residents.
"If one of their policemen acted inappropriately, there would be hardly any recourse. We'd have no information, no follow-up," said Ken Durham

None of this discussion addresses abuses of power which does happen on occasion by misguided officers. In one case at Harvard University an eager ambitious officer did a prominent professor a favor by arresting a person whose constitutionally protected speech and behavior offended the professor. The University refused to address the abuse of power. 

Another element of this is the lack of accountability, and over sight. Private police are answerable only to their employers. Large prominent university corporations, like Harvard University with $32 billion endowment have little respect for eccentric individuals, and critics. They will abuse their power as regular city and state fully trained officers will do. But the lack of accountability creates barriers to uncovering the abuses. At Harvard University, their police have been known to cover up felonies committed by university employees. They also abuse their powers as personal favors. It is important to limit the authority and jurisdiction of these campus police wannabes.  

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Dec 17, 4:29 PM EST
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BY ERIC TUCKER
ASSOCIATED PRESS