Yep, I get that. My objection - if you want to call it that - is that a university police officer was evidently stopping someone on a public street for a relatively minor violation. I'm not questioning the legality of that. I'm questioning the sensibility of that.
If I were the university president, I'd sure want my officers on campus, protecting students. It's a minor thing in the greater story here, I know.
The university must get a cut.
Perps don't spend their lives on campus and they don't wear identifying attire. They lurk on the periphery, do their thing and get out. Point is, aggressive patrolling in the areas surrounding the campus is how university cops deter or apprehend perps. That's why they have police powers. Campus bound cops wouldn't be cops - they'd be security guards.
Looks like that practice will be ending in Cincinnati, pronto.
The prosecutor has called for the university police to be disbanded and the Cincinnati police to patrol the campus.
After the inevitable lawsuit is settled, the university won’t be able to afford their own police force.