Why They Just Closed A College Police Station Will Make You…
They just closed a college police station, and the reason why they did so will totally shock you and leave you speechless…
Harvard University has hosted an on-campus police station for at least fifteen years, but complaints from students and staff have now forced the university to close the station in an effort to appease the complaints that claimed it was nothing more than a “violent, visual intimidation tactic” meant to keep students and staff in line. It took years of complaints from students and faculty, but the college finally caved in.
The police station was known to be just one of four on-campus but many of the faculty and students deemed it to be more threatening than the other locations because it was so close to student life. There were students and faculty that would take issue with the police officers eating food at the students’ dining hall, and that further intimidated them because the law enforcement was so close to the students.
“The decision to close the Mather House substation was made last week in response to concerns raised by Mather House staff and students as well as the amount of use of the substation by officers and community members,” Harvard University Police Department spokesperson Steven G. Catalano wrote in a statement Tuesday.
Students have claimed for years that they didn’t feel safe having law enforcement so close to where they lived and studied.
One student named Faith A. Woods is scheduled to graduate from Harvard in 2024 said the following:
“I am well aware that the police are not there to keep me actively safe,” Woods said before the department advertised plans to close its location. “Having a police car sitting outside of Mather every night — which it does — doesn’t bring me any sense of safety. Instead, it implies that we’re being watched and policed, which is not a pleasant feeling.”
Another resident of the Mather House is Eleanor M. Taylor, and she said that the campus police are only present to incite fear in the students.
“The real effect that the presence of the HUPD substation has on the Mather community is simply a violent, visual intimidation tactic that students are forced to see every time they enter the house,” Taylor said.
Unfortunately, because of these “woke” Stalinist liberals, Harvard is actually going to be less safe because they now have one less police station, although Harvard law enforcement continues to insist otherwise.
“The closure will not impact the Department’s ability to respond to calls from the community in an effective and timely manner,” Catalano wrote.
Unfortunately, there are some Harvard students who are not satisfied with just one police station at the college being shut down; they want the whole operation to be shuttered.
“It’s really important that we keep these violent institutions outside of residences,” DeJesus said. “Ultimately, HUPD remains the police force that disproportionately targets Black and Brown people here on campus and in Cambridge. For real justice to exist on this campus, HUPD must be abolished.”
Yeah, someone actually said that. And yes, I am just as incredulous as you are.