“Michigan State has its own law enforcement agency. Its members are full peace officers with powers of arrest, just like municipal police departments.”
Meh, sorry, but if I’m driving on a public road through their campus and some “university police” tries to pull me over, I’m just going to keep driving. If it comes to it, I’ll take my chances that a jury won’t be any more pleased with rent-a-cops pretending to have real police powers than I am.
PRECISELY!
I understand the sentiment, but they're real cops. MSU is effectively a city with 48000 students and another 8000 faculty and staff. Add in problems from alumni and others flooding the campus during the Bacchanalian revelries nominally called "football games" and "basketball games".
The police there are hired from the police academies and are highly competent compared to any other municipal police force. They have to deal constantly with drugs, assaults, rapes, riots (fortunately less frequently), property damage, theft, and hormonally challenged 18-25 year olds. They also have an extraordinarily diverse population with a huge non-US contingent of students, many from cultures where their families are the top of the heap politically ("Do you know who I am" types). Rather than rent-a-cops, the campus security there deserve the same respect given municipal police anywhere.
Also if you did this, it's the same as running from any other cop who tries to stop you. They are a police force. And they have the power to pursue you into E. Lansing, and the E. Lansing P.D. would pile on as well if you continued fleeing. The jury would convict you.
Yup agree, my car my rules. I wont be stopping for the smoking police