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Post by Phaedrus on Jan 22, 2012 18:18:59 GMT -5
tomclen is popping open the champagne as we speak. I doubt he is doing that, at all. Most people can separate the person and the events. You, obviously, cannot. Sent from my MB860 using ProBoards
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Post by truffleshuffle on Jan 22, 2012 19:18:39 GMT -5
huh?
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Post by elevationvb on Jan 24, 2012 17:50:14 GMT -5
Pateron's wife said it best to the idiot board of trustees, Joe deserved better. Read these words carefully: Joe Paterno, in March of 2002, after being told by a graduate assistant coach that he had witnessed longtime defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky allegedly raping a young boy in the football team's facility the night before, notified the police. In fact, Paterno discussed what he learned with the man, Gary Schultz, who had administrative control of the Penn State police.
The point people are missing is that the Penn State police are different than most campus police forces. They are a real police force. They carry guns. They aren't rent-a-cops. They have jurisdiction over the campus, which includes the Penn State football offices. In 1953, Penn State President Milton Eisenhower (brother of Dwight D.) changed the name of the campus to "University Park," and created a separate unincorporated community within the campus. When Paterno notified Schultz of what he had been told, he was notifying an appropriate authority.www.thepostgame.com/commentary/201112/did-we-get-it-wrong-joe-paterno
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Post by BearClause on Jan 24, 2012 18:28:03 GMT -5
There's a difference between going to a civilian and going directly to the police or district attorney. While I'm sure the Penn State administrator had oversight over the police department
It's also not true that most campus police departments aren't law enforcement. University of California Police and California State University Police are fully certified police departments under California law with sworn officers with arrest powers throughout the state. It's actually a bit unusual, since they legally have arrest powers outside of their jurisdiction - to make any arrest for a state law. Even local police don't have that power. The California Highway Patrol does. Stanford has a security department where their officers are certified law enforcement serving as Santa Clara County reserve sheriff's deputies. They can legally carry weapons.
Even some private school security departments have officers who are licensed to carry firearms as private security guards, and are authorized to make arrests by the local police or sheriff's dept.
Most of the Pac-12 schools have full-fledged police departments with sworn officers. I mentioned Stanford with their reserve deputies. University of Oregon is phasing in a sworn police force. USC has security authorized to carry weapons and make arrests. University of Utah doesn't have a sworn police force.
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