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To: GOPJ

“Campus ‘police’ aren’t really police are they?”

No, they’re often real cops. They usually, these days, graduate from police training courses, carry real firearms, etc.

http://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2012/10/are-campus-police-the-same-as-real-police.html

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/6-ways-campus-cops-are-becoming-more-like-regular-police-20150624

http://boingboing.net/2015/09/17/campus-cops-all-the-powers-of.html


20 posted on 02/08/2017 10:14:22 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998

Yes. If they have powers of arrest, they are cops, as far as I know.


32 posted on 02/08/2017 11:39:12 AM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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