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As a result of the domestic violence and mass civil disturbances found across the nation in the 1960s and early 1970s, campus security often proved ineffective against riots and other violent civil demonstrations. This occasionally resulted in injury to both the students and the officers. These campus security officers were often either poorly or untrained, ineffectively led and generally unprepared to effectively respond to these turbulent and unanticipated events. Creation of university/campus police departments began at this time across the nation. Statutory laws were passed and necessary regulations were enacted to provide these officers with the necessary statutory authority to perform their expanded roles. Campus security officers were required to meet higher training and educational standards. Further training was given to officers to deal with campus-specific issues (including non-violent crisis management and riot training).Emphasis mine, of course..
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At approximately 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14, a community service officer (CSO) employed bySince it was a communicty safety officer doing the checking, it seems like it probably is as routine as they say.
the library was performing a nightly, routine check to insure that all patrons using the library
after 11 p.m. are authorized. This is a longstanding library policy to ensure the safety of students
during the late night hours.
In this incident, the student was not shot with a Taser; rather officers used the "drive stun" capability.Better keep that language of obfuscation straight.
"If it weren't for the video this might be another humdrum case of a rowdy student. But the video and the way it is distributed make it far more disturbing. Although the picture is incomplete, it is hard to characterise the officers' actions as reasonable. But much more interesting is that we get to see the video.
Home videos of police excess have been around for a long time - it is 14 years since the Rodney King video sparked the 1992 riots - but the means to distribute them to a mass audience has previously been in the hands of corporate media. That has now changed.
Three YouTube hits [1, 2, 3] in a week is bad news for a law enforcement community that has been grappling for years with its reputation for heavy-handedness. LAPD chief William Bratton has sounded by turns contrite and combative, promising an enquiry into the first incident (the FBI is also looking into the arrest) while insisting that 'Police work is never pretty, particularly when you have people resisting arrest.'
Back at UCLA, the campus police are collecting evidence. 'We will gather as many samples as we can find, from different sources,' an official told the LA Times. 'We'll use it for our own administrative investigation.'
If that sounds like a promise to adopt the old routine of sweeping an investigation under the carpet, home video has the upper hand. In the YouTube video of the UCLA incident, there are occasional glimpses of other students holding their mobile phones up to record the action. Reality has been brought to book."
[Guardian UK | November 16, 2006]
"In my opinion, he was asking for it....If I...refused to comply with the directions of the CSO – being asked to leave – I would fully expect to be treated somewhat roughly by the police....'Since when is it OK to Taser students?' I'd like to suggest an answer: It might be OK when the student picks a fight with police officers."
"Hoping to calm the furor created when University of California, Los Angeles, police used a Taser to subdue a student studying in the university's Powell Library, the university's acting chancellor on Friday announced that a veteran Los Angeles law enforcement watchdog would head up an independent investigation of the incident.
Norman Abrams said he ordered the probe after the university received numerous calls and e-mails since the Tuesday night arrest from parents and alumni raising concerns about the officers' actions, which were broadcast around the world on TV news and the YouTube Web site.
'I want to assure them that the UCLA campus is a safe environment. Student safety and treatment are of paramount concern at UCLA,' he said. 'We plan to move ahead promptly with a complete and unbiased review.'
Abrams appointed Merrick Bobb, who was a staff attorney for the Christopher Commission and currently works as the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors' watchdog of the Sheriff's Department, to handle the probe. Abrams said Bobb has a proven track record looking into allegations of police misconduct, including the Rodney King beating."
Tabatabainejad's attorney, Stephen Yagman, said his client refused to show his ID because he thought he was being singled out because of his Middle Eastern appearance.Which raises the question of just how routine ID checks are, again. Sounds like they may not be routine at all..
The UCLA police officer videotaped last week using a Taser gun on a student also shot a homeless man at a campus study hall room three years ago and was earlier recommended for dismissal in connection with an alleged assault on fraternity row, authorities said.[emphasis added]
UCLA police confirmed late Monday that the officer who fired the Taser gun was Terrence Duren, who has served in the university's Police Department for 18 years.
Duren, who was named officer of the year in 2001, also has been involved in several controversial incidents on campus.
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