Crime – The College Fix

Temple University threatens cops for promoting ‘warm clothes’ drive

Caleb Nunes - Northwestern University — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 05:03:58 +0000

UPDATED University leadership creates ‘culture of fear,’ union says Temple University police officers were reportedly threatened with sanctions by the administration for promoting a clothing drive for the needy. The conflict is the latest in a series between the Temple University Police Association and administrators at the Philadelphia school. Police officers wanted to promote a “charity…

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Minneapolis teams up with NYU law school to ‘reimagine’ policing

Jack Applewhite - University of Georgia — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 05:08:33 +0000

UPDATED Project wants to end ‘policing as a one-size-fits-all answer’ Minneapolis is shelling out $1,000,000 to a New York University School of Law group to help it implement an “alternatives” to policing plan. The Minneapolis City Council recently approved a partnership with NYU Law’s Reimagining Public Safety, a program of its Policing Project. The initiative wants to “incorporate non…

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Professor: Vandalism, smoke bombs at Jewish leader’s home ‘pretty cool’

Micaiah Bilger - Assistant Editor — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 19:44:00 +0000

Los Angeles police investigating vandalism as possible hate crime A professor at Washington University in St. Louis praised pro-Palestinian protesters who vandalized a Jewish leader’s home on Thanksgiving morning, describing the smoke bombs and paint damage as “pretty cool.” Anthropology Professor Bret Gustafson supported the vandalism targeting American Israel Public Affairs Committee…

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The past week at Penn: antisemitic projections on campus buildings, theft of Israeli flag

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:15:32 +0000

Not to be outdone by their George Washington U. peers, last week pro-Palestinian students at the University of Pennsylvania also took to projecting antisemitic slogans onto several campus buildings. According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the groups Penn Against the Occupation and Philly Palestine Coalition posted images of the projections on their Instagram pages. They included the phrases…

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Report: Jewish, Israeli students at MIT ‘blockaded’ from attending classes

College Fix Staff — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 05:33:46 +0000

‘Public and private warnings … that Jewish students should not enter MIT’s main lobby’ A chilling report on X (formerly Twitter) from a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology alleges that Jewish and Israeli students have been prevented from attending classes by pro-Hamas/anti-Israel students. Retsef Levi shared a letter from the MIT Israel Alliance which called out members of…

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Police: No evidence Israel supporter attacked UNC Muslim student with knife

Micaiah Bilger - Assistant Editor — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:30:06 +0000

Chapel Hill police say they’re still investigating social media claim Police are investigating an online claim alleging an individual wearing an Israeli flag attacked a Muslim student Tuesday near the University North Carolina, Chapel Hill — but so far say there is no evidence the attack took place. The UNC Muslim Students Association claimed on its Instagram page Thursday that a Muslim…

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Harvard Kennedy School hosts ‘restorative justice’ advocate who wants prisons abolished

College Fix Staff — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 23:27:35 +0000

This past Wednesday, Harvard’s Kennedy School hosted Danielle Sered, a “restorative justice” advocate who wants to do away with the nation’s prisons. Sered (pictured) is the executive director of Common Justice which, according to its website, “develops and advances solutions to violence that transform the lives of those harmed and foster racial equity without relying on incarceration.

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U. Maryland professor: Police have same reaction to black people as to ‘snakes and spiders’

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 16:00:43 +0000

A University of Maryland professor of sociology recently told a webinar audience that police in the United States have the same reaction to snakes and spiders as they do to “Black individuals in close proximity.” Rashawn Ray, head of UMD’s Social Justice Alliance and Anti-Black Racism Initiative, cited his own implicit bias research for the comparison during the discussion “Rotten Trees: Racism…

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Skirt-wearing male ASU professor scuffles with TPUSA members

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:10:42 +0000

Professor initiated physical contact, but university is investigating TPUSA members An Arizona State University professor who lunged at a Turning Point USA cameraman as he was followed, flanked and asked questions by another TPUSA activist about his fringe sexual proclivities alleges he was assaulted by the two activists. The school is now investigating the national conservative college…

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Berkeley Law event touts defunding police, pays Angela Davis $1,000 to champion ‘decarceration’

Hudson Crozier - University of North Texas — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who was recalled for being soft on crime, hosted a talk with avowed communist Angela Davis about criminal justice reform as the inaugural event of his new legal center at the University of California Berkeley. After voters recalled Boudin in June of last year over his leniency toward crime, Berkeley’s law school hired him to lead its new…

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