Security and Cleanup From Anti-Israel Protests Has Cost University of California $29 Million
“Most of the money, about $26 million, paid for increased security, according to the report.”
Why didn’t the school make the student protesters clean it up? They could have made it a condition for remaining in school.
The College Fix reports:
University of California spends $29 million on protest security, cleanup
Security and cleanup expenses related to pro-Palestinian protests cost the University of California at least $29 million this spring, according to a new report.
Since March 1, the state universities have spent the money to hire additional security, scrub graffiti from buildings, remove trash from protesters’ encampments, and pay pest control to get rid of rodents and cockroaches, the Los Angeles Times reported this week based on preliminary estimates from the UC.
Most of the money, about $26 million, paid for increased security, according to the report.
In the spring, protests on UC campuses resulted in hundreds of arrests, including more than 200 at UC Los Angeles in early May, The College Fix reported.
Afterward, photos showed massive debris left over from the cleared UCLA encampment and graffiti covering several buildings.
The university spent approximately $10 million on security and $400,00 to restore the campus, including pest removal, trash disposal, and vandalism repairs, according to the report.
The LA Times reports more:
When a university brings in outside law enforcement agencies, it must pay not only for officers’ time, including overtime, but also for lodging, transportation and meals for those who are deployed from outside the area. For large protests, such “mutual aid” is often necessary, since campus police forces are relatively small, ranging from 66 sworn officers at UCLA to 19 at UC Merced.
UC Berkeley spent $8 million on campus protests between March 1 and June 25. Campus leaders and protesters reached an agreement to remove the Berkeley encampment voluntarily without police intervention, but some of the $7.5 million spent on safety and security involved other protests.
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In general, college administrators need to reassert control of their institutions. Students are there to shut up and learn. They aren’t there to tell the university how it should conduct its business. If they don’t like how the university functions, they should go elsewhere.
But I guess that doesn’t apply to CA. The CA university system is so woke that it requires faculty applicants to proclaim their loyalty to wokeness, and administrators are invariably far left-wing. So anarchy will reign, CA will throw away gobs of money to try to patch up their socialist system, and the reputations of CA university will decline. If the CA voters don’t care, then neither should anyone else.
The CA university system functioned best and amassed its great reputation when Ronald Reagan was in charge.
I would just look me to reiterate
in as kind a way as possible,
that for this upcoming fall/2024 semester,
if you are planning to send your kid to attend college at almost any American campus,
then
you’ve really lost the plot.
It’d be like planning to go fishing on the lake when there’s a high probability of lightning storms. Who does that?
Especially when it’ll cost you and your family thousands of non-refundable dollars lolol
Whatever
smh
Marxists trash everything. Selfish, lazy slobs.