BU scenarios will reoccur until DOJ finally holds college town PD's accountable

Knoxville. Tennessee is fighting off a lawsuit based upon its handling of sexual assault (for which no one was fired).

Unfortunately, Barney Fife comes to mind anytime I think about campus police. I am not exactly sure how campus police interact with the local police, but in a perfect world the campus police would be a sub-station of the local PD.

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this has little to do with legit policing bodies and everything to do with Obama's terrible Title 9 policy

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I am no Obama fan, but Title IX was around long before he showed up in D.C.

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But, the Title IX cases for fostering rape culture just seem like a weird catch all to punish people, almost like RICO.

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i almost made this exact comparison in the main thread about Briles

it seems like they can't get him directly, so they're using associations to do it...just like RICO

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That said, these suits seem to be one mechanism as a check on crooked local PDs.

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if we removed the universities entirely, it would allow a much larger magnifying glass on the PDs

right now it's a mess of a bunch of different institutions with varying levels of interaction and overlap, which makes it very easy for real crimes to slip through the cracks (oh i thought you reported it? no i thought YOU reported it!)

if the local PDs are crooked, let them burn

fricking contortions to blame Obama for everything. Most of these things have been happening for years. And many before he became president. What does Bams have to do with a jock sniffing cop letting a player slide or hiding evidence because he's in love with the hometown program?

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fricking contortions to blame Obama for everything.

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i don't, so that i can effectively blame him when needed. this is one of the few areas i call him out on

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I'm not a fan of gov't intervention either. But somethings gotta change here.

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lawsuits

open public records

criminal prosecutions for the "Bad cops"

arenas like that are the most effective. these are public bodies and are subject to popularity and oversight

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Something has changed.

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This happened

that is the lighting of the fuse, so to speak

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fricking contortions to blame Obama for everything. Most of these things have been happening for years. And many before he became president. What does Bams have to do with a jock sniffing cop letting a player slide or hiding evidence because he's in love with the hometown program?

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Like with other things, Obama unilaterally changed how Title IX is supposed to be interpreted through a "Dear Colleague" letter, with the threat that if colleges and Universities didn't change their procedures on sexual assault and harassment, he would sanction them.

Among other things, the standard of proof on assault cases was changed from a 75% to a 51% standard. So now on a sexual assault case, instead of a "clear and convincing standard," you only need a "preponderance of evidence" to punish an alleged assaulter. Due process rights for the accused were also weakened. Additionally, the definition of what constitutes "harassment" has been altered to include a "speech-based hostile environment." Which of course could mean anything, and it's part of the reason the anti-free speech climate on these campuses has intensified.

It's not to say that there shouldn't be strong protections to prevent sexual assault, but the Obama changes have only created confusion, because the Universities that actually want to protect students from assault are caught between the Obama directive and lawsuits by male students who say they're innocent and claim their due process rights are not protected now under Title IX. Meanwhile as far as I know there was no investigation of the Tallahassee Department which presumably the Department of Justice could have come in and done, as they did with Ferguson. So you have confusing Title IV changes on the one hand and a lack of attention to local policing on the other.