Student Govt at UC-Davis Votes Narrowly to Keep Campus Police Armed
“The issue of police has been a contentious one in the UC-Davis community during this past spring semester.”
If someone is attacking you and is armed with a gun, what can an unarmed police officer do to help you?
Campus Reform reports:
UC Davis student government NARROWLY votes to keep campus police armed
The student senate at the University of California-Davis recently decided against disarming its campus police force by a narrow 6-5 vote.
Several individuals who voted against the measure did not disagree with the principle but did have issues with the resolution’s wording, according to The California Aggie.
One supporter of the measure, sociology Ph.D. candidate Blu Buchanan, told the California Aggie that “university police officers frequently do violence to people of color, folks with disabilities and queer and trans folks on our campuses.”
The issue of police has been a contentious one in the UC-Davis community during this past spring semester.
UC-Davis English professor Joshua Clover garnered national media attention for anti-police tweets that he has made in the past, which have included messages such as, “I mean, it’s easier to shoot cops when their backs are turned, no?” and, “I am thankful that every living cop will one day be dead, some by their own hand, some by others, too many of old age #letsnotmakemore.”
At the time, UC-Davis College Republicans president Ryan Gardiner, told Campus Reform that “anti-cop rhetoric has been commonplace on campus for as long as I have been here.”
“There is a very vocal segment of the student population that ignores facts and data to push the narrative that law enforcement is a racist and oppressive institution,” he also said.
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Do they actually have any say in the matter or is this just “look at us virtue signalling?”
I was about to as; “Since when do the children (yes, they are still children especially today) make decisions like that?
The whole bunch of them have been inside the academic cocoon their entire lives. Real life is a mystery to them. Not that the administrators are much better.
The article says that some who voted not to disarm did so because of the wording of the thing, not the reality of it. I’m well past that age, but I would not finance any child of mine to attend there.