[Vision2020] campus policing

[Glenn Schwaller]

I addressed it a week or so ago.
http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2010-April/069801.html

I think it would be a consideration to reduce MPD response to non-life
threatening situations and letting private security make the call.
Look on the campus paper police blotter - how many non-urgent calls
were there?  And if students are off campus are they not part of the
city "contract" with MPD?  I seriously doubt first response to a
student living on N Polk would be by UI contracted private security.

One thing most of you don't realize is that this contract renewal is
in response to the UI policy  (much ignored until new financial
administrators were brought in) that all outside contracts must be put
up for bid.  Nobody has said MPD won't get it.  Seems like Saundra
Lund was just crying about "dishonest & unethical university
administrators" and here is one playing by the rules.  Not good enough
I guess.  Apparently unless you follow the "progressives rule book"
it's always wrong . . .

GS

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Warren Hayman <whayman at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> 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
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>
>> 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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