http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2012/11/21/as-reported-sexual-assaults-increase-psu-considers-creating-its-own-police-force Comments On: As Reported Sexual Assaults Increase, PSU Considers Creating its Own Police Force by Sarah Mirk en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 11:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by fidelity_axiom]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:01:37 -0800 Portland Mercury
This. This. This. This. and again: THIS
Posted by happyhedonist]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:56:48 -0800 Portland Mercury
As far as adding police and controlling them. PSU could arm its proposed cops and have a policy that says they cannot use the guns for any reason at all, ever. If one did use a gun, they could be fired, but would still be held to the Graham standard (fear of serious injury) for prosecution purposes.
Posted by bridger]]> Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:49:30 -0800 Portland Mercury
I totally favor EXPANDING firearms rights and promoting the concept of armed students. Arming every student who is interested in being armed at PSU isn't going to deter a lot of violence (because it will be at most 2% of college students), but propagating the idea that most students are armed will deter a lot of violence.

If the ISO spent 10% of their posters saying, "WARNING RAPISTS: Our girls are armed." That would scare the shit out of assholes.

Give the college girls tasers, give one to every girl that asks for one. We already give them to the cops: who's worse? A taser has to be registered before it can be activated, and shots of tasers leave hundreds of micro ID tags on the victim. We would never have abuse of the tasers because of accountability, and crime would drop significantly.

Ha! Anyways, my idea isn't going to float, PSU inevitably will have more security in the future. I think this is less about helping victims of sexual assault, and more about having resources for the cops to harass students about drugs.
Posted by fidelity_axiom]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:29:12 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by The Showstopper]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:01:34 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by xauen]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:33:19 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by xauen]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:16:00 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by frankieb]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:00:12 -0800 Portland Mercury

The answer to this issue is NOT more cops nor a PSU private police force. Women need to ARM themselves! Watch out for each other. Male companions should do the same. Call out (and handle) douchebags who rape or get too close to rape.

All these would be just a start, more can be done, i'm sure.

And i'm not playing either, i'm DEAD SERIOUS! If citizens keep forfeiting their security over to authoritarians in order to have safety, what you will end up with is LESS security, LESS safety, and MORE authority! History shows us this, repeatedly. WAKE UP, DUMMIES!
Posted by DamosA]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:32:10 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by student]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:41:47 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by The Immortal Goon]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:48:43 -0800 Portland Mercury
I don't know that sworn police officers are any likelier than campus security persons to be "a Magaña"
Posted by xauen]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:51:09 -0800 Portland Mercury http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2009/09/03/new…

Adding cops just adds to the chance of a Magana on campus... The last thing college kids need are a bunch of trigger happy cops who will go to the mat to protect their own even if they are rapists.
Posted by econoline]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:26:11 -0800 Portland Mercury