CUNY Allegedly Blocking Bodycam Use so Public Won’t See Crime on Campus
“You’ll see some of the interactions we have, where faculty, staff, even students may be completely in the wrong, and they don’t want that behavior leaked on the news.”
This claim is very easy to believe. If people see what’s happening, it could negatively impact the school’s bottom line.
The New York Post reports:
CUNY blocking bodycam use at Manhattan school so public doesn’t find out about crime on campus: sources
The City University of New York is letting $120,000 worth of body cameras gather dust at one Manhattan school — because they don’t want the public to see the crime and violence taking place on campus grounds, insiders told The Post.
In 2021, City College of New York purchased 62 body cameras, accessories, and software as part of a pilot program to improve transparency between campus security and the public, according to CCNY public safety officers and financial documents obtained by The Post.
The acquisition followed a spate of crime around the Harlem campus at the height of the pandemic, according to campus officers.
But CCNY insiders told The Post that CUNY brass likely shelved the cameras’ deployment to prevent students’ parents and the public from witnessing bloody crimes or the campus community acting poorly.
“A big part of why they don’t want us to have body cameras is it’ll show what’s really happening on the campuses,” one veteran CCNY officer told The Post.
“You’ll see some of the interactions we have, where faculty, staff, even students may be completely in the wrong, and they don’t want that behavior leaked on the news.”
The new cameras would “serve to provide a contemporaneous objective record of encounters, facilitate review by supervisors, foster accountability and encourage lawful and respectful interactions between the public and Public Safety,” according to a draft proposal for the program obtained by The Post.
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This article is not surprising at all, sadly.
CUNY was a nice idea about a century ago. Today it’s all fake, and should be closed down.
To get on the faculty at CUNY today , it’s my understanding that you actually are required to prove that you have:
(A) no integrity,
and (B) a measured IQ less than your shoe size.
“On second thought, accountability is overrated.”
I have pondered myself that this might happen at some point. The left screeched for body cameras everywhere only a few short years ago. Now they want them to go away. BLM has companied for awhile now to get rid of body cameras. They realize it is difficult to build narratives based on lies with body cameras around. And I think law enforcement, in general, has embraced them almost wholeheartedly despite their early reluctance at adopting them.
The truth is such a bummer when it comes to narrative building.