Posted on 05/07/2015 1:13:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
University of Rhode Island campus police will start carrying guns Friday, making it the final public university in the nation to arm its officers.
The move to arm police came after a false alarm in 2013, when some students in a lecture hall thought they heard someone say they had a gun, setting off a panic on URI’s bucolic campus in South Kingstown. While campus police arrived at the scene in less than a minute, it took about five minutes for armed police from South Kingstown to arrive. No gun was ever found. […]
A student government survey of URI undergrads in 2013 found that about two-thirds of respondents favored arming campus police. Michelle Fisette, a senior, calls it a great decision. She was in the classroom in 2013 when the false alarm happened and mayhem broke out. …
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Why is Rhode Island a state? It has fewer square miles and people than many counties.
The police at the college I went to (NJIT) were useless since they were rent a cop security guards. Anyone could wander on to the campus and cause mayhem. That problem ended when the contract was cancelled and the guards replaced with full fledged campus police (some of the guards going to the State Police Academy) with the authority to arrest.
Why would the URI cops need guns? The campus is a gun-free zone, so there should be no threat, right?
Oh, that’s easy. because no one wants it!
Left there and never looked back, except my kid is in URI. Thank God he graduates soon.
Because it was one of the original 13 colonies.
The same arguments are use to ask why D.C. is not a State.
Essentially, because those are the rules (the Constitution) that was agreed to. If you wish to change the rules, there are a couple of ways to do it:
Amendment
Convention of the States.
John F’n Kerry needs it to avoid paying taxes on his yacht.
(He served in Vietnam BTW)
I guess that means U.R.I. will become a shall issue campus.
Can’t have one side with the means to defend themselves can we?
I read that RI statehood was first put before the voters via referendum and lost.
What? Unarmed “police” aren’t even police. What a joke. Glad they wised up.
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