Is The Campus Policing System Failing Students?
There’s a lot to learn from UVA - Jackie’s story with Phi Kappa Psi , missing student Hannah Graham , the brutal murder of Yeardley Love - a culture on campus in which violence and sexual assaults are taken with a soft-handed approach. In each case at UVA, and across campuses nationwide, there is political as well as financial pressure for the campus police and administration to downplay or cover-up crimes committed on or by students either on campus or off. Jackie’s story recently recounted in a Rolling Stone article uncovered a broken system that fails victims and aids attackers. Students are calling for Dean Eramo to be fired for her role in keeping sexual assaults within campus authority rather than reporting them directly to the local police department. Since the story was published, many more UVA students and alumni have come forward with similar stories. It’s been brought to light that even when assaults are kept within campus authority, punishments are weak, or non-e