[Vision2020] campus policing

[Warren Hayman]

Didn't Debbie Gray address this same point a week or so ago?

Warren Hayman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "roger hayes" <rhayes at turbonet.com>
Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] campus policing


> Fascinating and extremely enlightening commentary, Roger.
> 
> If the UI were to privatize its security force, subsequently resulting in
> the tax payers of Moscow picking up the tab, coupled with a limited city
> budget . . .
> 
> Would the city of Moscow limit the MPD's responses to life-threatening
> instances on the UI campus?
> 
> . . . or . . .
> 
> Would the MPD respond dutifully to campus instances, as they have in the
> past, forcing the city budget deep into the red, ultimately impacting
> other budgetary obligations?
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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>> I keep waiting until someone noticed that policing the U of I with a
>> private force will simply place much of the cost burden on the
>> taxpayers of Moscow. Every arrest, every serious incident, every
>> investigation will continue to fall to the Moscow police force. Except
>> then the U of I won't have to pay for those functions--the people who
>> pay taxes here will. Smart move on the university's part, eh?
>> If the university privatizes policing, it might help the university to
>> decide on who's going to police the campus if the city levied a charge
>> per police response to the university.
>>
>> Roger Hayes
>> Moscow
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