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, cleanupSecurity 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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