May 4, 2007

Over a Decade, College Police Have Become More Professional

By MARTIN VAN DER WERF

Virginia Tech administrators face a lot of questions about their response during the worst mass shooting in American history, and that investigation is already shining a new light on the role of university police departments.

Campus police have been caricatured as little more than glorified security guards. In reality, for at least a decade, almost all the police officers on large college campuses have attended the same training academies and have the same certification as officers

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