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Originally posted by madmax
Sounds like a bogus shooting to me.
I don't think universities should even have police departments. The local governments should be responsible for police departments. The schools could simply give their police budget to the local town and then let the town hire more cops to patrol the campus. Having just one police department would be more efficient. If it is a big campus then the local police can simpy set up a full time office on campus.
What does Ball State or any other college know about running a police department? Most campus cops are a joke and their main job is to write parking tickets. I think the NYPD is a little more qualified to stop crime than the NYU PD.
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I know the students at Wayne State University, which is in the inner city of Detroit, are very happy to have their own police force. Crime rates on their campus are MUCH lower than in the rest of the city and the City of Detroit police force is under federal investigation for a whole lot of corruption.
At Eastern Michigan University, my alma mater, the campus police as well as the city and county police began falling under one umbrella about 10 to 15 years ago so that they would be cooperating with each other and assisting one another without jurisdictional problems. I believe that includes the police from the University of Michigan because they are in the same county.
As for this particular case, I agree with DA. We need to watch and see just what occurred. If the police in fact got a call that someone was trying to break into a house at that hour of the night, it was probably dark.. you can see how an officer would feel threatened. It's definitely a tragedy for this young man's family however and my thoughts and prayers will be with them.
Dee