[Vision2020] campus policing

[Tom Hansen]

Fascinating and extremely enlightening commentary, Roger.

If the UI were to privatize its security force, subsequently resulting in
the tax payers of Moscow picking up the tab, coupled with a limited city
budget . . .

Would the city of Moscow limit the MPD's responses to life-threatening
instances on the UI campus?

. . . or . . .

Would the MPD respond dutifully to campus instances, as they have in the
past, forcing the city budget deep into the red, ultimately impacting
other budgetary obligations?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho






> I keep waiting until someone noticed that policing the U of I with a
> private force will simply place much of the cost burden on the
> taxpayers of Moscow. Every arrest, every serious incident, every
> investigation will continue to fall to the Moscow police force. Except
> then the U of I won't have to pay for those functions--the people who
> pay taxes here will. Smart move on the university's part, eh?
> If the university privatizes policing, it might help the university to
> decide on who's going to police the campus if the city levied a charge
> per police response to the university.
>
> Roger Hayes
> Moscow