Tagged - Public Safety
Abolition
Students reimagine Public Safety on campus, address lack of administrative accountability
Many students largely agreed that the funds currently supporting DPS should be reallocated to other departments in need of more resources, such as the Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center and University Counseling Center. Read More
Anti-racism
Anti-racist DPS policy to include blindfolds
DPS plans to have all officers wear blindfolds or horse blinders when driving because, “if we can’t see their face, we can’t tell their race.” Read More
Genesee
Genesee Hall residents targeted by jealous classmates, pelted with veggies
Victims were pelted with various rotten fruits and vegetables from a passing vehicle, and also reported hearing someone shout, ‘Sue B. in the house!’" Read More
Gun proposal
Feldman’s decision: No new armed DPS shifts, but freedom for armed supervisors
The decision took six months, a sit-in demonstration, a public forum, and a new 27-person committee. Read More
Public Safety
Gun proposal recommendations to be released by week’s end, Feldman’s decision to come
The Review Board voted on their recommendation for the proposal on Tuesday. Feldman said he received their recommendation the following day. Read More
Public Safety
Surprise K-9 visit gets UR riled up, but no evidence of forced entry or rumored pot bust
Director of Public Safety Mark Fischer believed concurrent visits by RPD and the fire marshal could have fueled the rumors. Read More
Public Safety
Do more guns equal more campus security? Not all agree.
A mini-documentary on the ongoing heated debate over guns at the University of Rochester. Read More
Eastman
Eastman students voice concern over latest security updates and DPS proposal
On the policy’s first day in action, Rhodes says he was stopped by a Public Safety officer for not presenting his ID. Read More
Gun Violence
Scholar-journalist Blanchfield rejects US culture of ‘Gunpower’
Journalist and academic Patrick Blanchfield encouraged listeners to abandon partisan responses and called attention to U.S. gun violence and the reactions it prompts, which he presented as a phenomenon called “Gunpower,” also the name of his upcoming book. In his presentation, in the Hawkins-Carlson room on Tuesday, Blanchfield described Gunpower as a way in which […]
Guns
From a variety of backgrounds, ad hoc committee members mostly avoid stance on gun proposal
In response to UR administration’s announcement of the members of the ad hoc committee, tasked with addressing Public Safety’s proposal to arm officers on the River and Eastman Campuses, the Campus Times spoke with 10 of the 27 committee members. Each had detailed unique backgrounds and perspectives, was hopeful about the results, and for the […]
