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College Police work for the College Not the Public!
Practically every time these sexual assaults occur the college police department has covered them up or screwed them up. Enough with these college police departments investigating felonies, they are licensed by the Mass State Police, require every felony on these campuses be investigated and reported by the State Police. Northeastern Univ. pays NO TAXES for police services to the City of Boston. Why are the Boston Police performing forensics analysis for NUPD? The State Police should handle college forensics analysis requests. I hope the kid wins million$$$.
I hope the kid wins million$$
Apart from the fact that the person is an ADULT, not a kid, would you care to explain what, if anything, in this whole matter justifies paying this person a huge sum of cash. I'll give you a big hint - NOTHING! Rape is a CRIME, it is NOT a matter to be handled through a civil court.
Unfortunately
Current interpretation of Title 9 very much disagrees. But isn't it strange when certain people choose to care about this?
Also, criminal cases are so shit at trying rape, a civil suit is usually all a victim has to get something vaguely approaching justice.
Agreed
I have thought about this topic, and frankly, if I had a child of age to be concerned about being assaulted while at school (and I think this goes for kids who are pretty young, 6th grade or so) I would identify a spot off campus at the beginning of the year and advise them that, if they were seriously victimized at school/college, to leave school property and go to the designated "safe" spot and call 911, where the real police would come. If they were young enough to be in trouble for leaving school grounds, I'd deal with that later.
Thankfully, I've never been sexually assaulted, but I was badly injured on school property in a physical assault once, and my sister had a violent roommate in college who seriously injured a third party in their shared room. In neither situation did the either school care about anything but brushing it under the rug.
Well, it's generally politics
Well, it's generally politics as usual between all parties. Point being is that if you're going to serve the law, it shouldn't be exclusive
That argument makes no sense.
What motivation would a college have in covering it up? Wouldn't they have more of a motivation to go the other way? That way they don't get sued? They can just charge the suspect and throw him out of school base on Title 9 standards of guilt?
Absolutely not
Significant: would you send you child, for $60k a year, to a school where 5% of the student body was sexually assaulted? And that's a lowball figure.
The problem is that schools are between a rock and a hard place. If they do this, the suspect usually sues and can ALSO win huge settlements against the school.
So many levels of fail
1. Title IX says an alleged victim gets to choose whether to go the criminal or the internal disciplinary system route. She chose not to make it a criminal matter. The federal government doesn't give the college a say in that decision.
2. It wasn't campus police who decided the alleged rapist was not responsible - it was the disciplinary system, including a panel of the alleged victim's fellow students. She appealed and lost again.
3. "Practically every time" ... I'm not even gonna ask you to show your data. Just look at every college or university's Clery Act reports (they are published every fall) to see how many sexual assaults they report. If they were covering 'em up, the numbers would be 0. Spoiler alert: they aren't.
4. That said, police have to report every sexual assault in the Clery stats whether or not the victim chooses to proceed criminally or within the discipline system, as long as she (overwhelmingly she, I'm not assuming no men are raped) tells someone employed by the institution. So, hypothetical: I'm raped; I tell my RA; she reports it up her chain of command. I choose for often understandable reasons not to file a formal charge, but the college now has an 'unsolved' sexual assault on its books. Coverup!!!1!
5. We're hearing one side of a story - a side that (see 2, above) - has already been through two layers of a disciplinary system and found wanting. Jumping from that to "all campus police hide rapes" is. let's say, at best an opinion unsupported by fact.
TRIGGER WARNING: This story contains material which may be upset
Why wasn't this warning given on the UHub story? I was triggered!
How is it
That I have spent decades teaching and learning highly controversial subjects at several institutions of higher education, yet the only time I hear anything about trigger warnings, it's from mouthbreathing internet trolls?
Did you click the link? The
Did you click the link? The commenter is referencing the one in Northeastern newspaper.
I guess
You were too busy teaching and learning to actually read the story that was linked.
Sorry if I wasn't clear
I was referring to the above being a condescending little twit.