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: sourcesThe 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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