Can confirm - University PD was actually rather reasonable and decent to everyone as a rule back while I was there. LAPD, on the other hand, are notorious for being one of - if not the most - fucked up LE organizations in the country, and have a rich and sordid tradition going back well over a century of racial profiling, excessive violence, and general shittiness.

And then the fucking UCPD decided to take sides in the 2024 Palestinian Solidarity protests, turning a (thoroughly video-documented, at least) blind eye towards Zionist counterprotestors beating the fuck out of Palestinian supporters, before using absurdly excessive force on the protesters who had just defended themselves from the Zionist shitbags. Needless to say, they kinda nuked their previous relatively benevolent rep with that move.

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I work at a Uni and I can agree that some of the UPD officers are great. In my state they're actually state troopers (because that gives them jurisdiction off campus).

But, they're not the ones who handle the Title IX investigations. I'm actually looking to join the team that handles it.

Where do you think criminology students get their experience?

Edit: The wildest part to me, all jokes aside, isn't that universities are allowed to handle rape allegations. It's that state police, based on the wording in this article (I'm too lazy to look up New York state law), need permission from the university to investigate themselves:

[Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff] also committed to adding a case manager to the school’s Office of Civil Rights to help those who report sexual misconduct on the Cornell campus navigate the process, and to working with the New York State Police to allow its criminal investigators — who are independent of Cornell — to investigate allegations.

Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong and I'm just reading too deeply into poor phrasing, but WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT "ALLOW"??

Edit 2: I lied. Here's the law. So it looks like "allow" here is less "permit" and more "facilitate".

But they're typically not the ones who do the investigation and hold the hearings. There's usually a group of faculty and staff who handles it.