Temple University Police Reportedly Threatened With Sanctions for Pushing Clothing Drive for the Needy
“The conflict is the latest in a series between the Temple University Police Association and administrators at the Philadelphia school.”
This is so absurd. The campus police aren’t allowed to do good works or to promote them?
The College Fix reports:
Temple University threatens cops for promoting ‘warm clothes’ drive
Temple University police officers were reportedly threatened with sanctions by the administration for promoting a clothing drive for the needy.
The conflict is the latest in a series between the Temple University Police Association and administrators at the Philadelphia school.
Police officers wanted to promote a “charity event” to “gather socks and warm clothes for those in need this winter,” union president Alec Shaffer told The College Fix via text messaging.
He said his members were never told what the specific rules were, but they did not promote the event in order to stay out of trouble.
Law enforcement personnel “were forbidden from actively championing the cause, as policy restrictions loomed over [their] heads,” Shaffer told The Fix.
The police union does still have up a graphic promoting the event, but without a uniformed officer.
The police union also released a letter on X that criticized Vice President of Public Safety Jennifer Griffin and the university for “threatening disciplinary action,” as well as not hiring enough police officers.
The university disagrees with Shaffer’s assertion.
“The report of a personnel investigation is inaccurate,” Senior Director of Communications Deirdre Hopkins told The Fix via email on behalf of Griffin.
But Hopkins said “officers are expected to follow work rules like other Temple staff members and when they violate those rules, including on social media” and “they will be treated in accordance with university policy.”
A photo, reviewed by The Fix, shows an officer in uniform holding up an advertisement for the clothing drive.
Shaffer told The Fix that Griffin has been a disappointment. Just 18 months ago, the union was “optimistic” about Griffin’s hire, as reported by The Fix.
However, Shaffer says Griffin “arrived at Temple with a closed mind and a lack of comprehension about our department’s inner workings and the vibrant culture of North Philadelphia.”
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Ok, for those that haven’t figured it out Modern Leftism is a Religion of Evil. I can’t make it any clearer.
Maybe they just hate charity and demand that the government take care of everything, something it has proven to be particularly bad at.
See: any Marxist society.
We’re told that the police have no duty to protect people, which now seems to mean the police are prohibited from gathering warm socks for people in need of warm socks.
Philadelphia is such a peaceful, sweet city, I can understand how a campus police force would be seen as superfluous. Sort of how warm socks would be superfluous to people enjoying the warm Philadelphia winter.
Faculty supporting Hamas and the genociding if Jews is more okay than campus police collecting clothes for the needy. This is insane.
Collages and universities should not have their own police forces.
This. I have never understood why this is considered normal. Also why facilities like airports, bus terminals, or the post office have their own police forces.
For that matter, I’ve never understood why in America policing is done at the municipal level, so that each small town has its own police, rather than at the state level.
Temple U appears to be a completely dysfunctional institution located in a completely dysfunctional neighborhood of a completely dysfunctional city.