May 24, 2023
Why Colleges Didn’t Rein in Their Police
This spring, amid a spate of mass shootings and rising concern about gun crime, two universities made plans to fortify their campus-police forces. George Washington University’s police department will begin arming some officers this fall for the first time. Portland State University quietly moved away from a 2021 policy change that had restricted its officers’ ability to patrol with weapons. The backlash was swift.