NEW ORLEANS LA April 4 2018 – Tulane University’s police chief has resigned and other top officials have either resigned or been fired after an internal investigation and questions from WWL-TV about claims that top brass downplayed or tried to cover up incidents in which officers used excessive force. On Monday, the school said it had […]
DAYTONA BEACH FL Feb 28 2018 — A Bethune-Cookman University student was arrested late Sunday night after police say a loaded AR-15 was found in his car, which was parked on campus. A security guard found Ronald Jacques Jr., 20, was illegally parked on campus, according to WESH in Orlando. When he looked more closely at […]
QUEENSBURY NY Jan 1 2018 — Public safety officers at SUNY Adirondack will be wearing body cameras and body armor and will be armed with Tasers in January. And they will be armed with Glock 9-millimeter handguns before the next freshman class arrives in September, as the result of an October vote by the college’s board […]
Philadelphia PA Dec 2 2017 A Drexel University grad has been arrested after intervening in an argument near Drexel University’s campus and fatally shooting another man, police say. Twenty-four-year-old Joseph Howanski has been charged with murder and related offenses. Just after 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, residents along the 3500 block of Lancaster Avenue woke up to […]
Knoxville TN Dec 2 2017 A man who was captured on video being thrown to the ground as campus police arrested him at a University of Tennessee men’s basketball game on Wednesday night later refused medical treatment, police said. Jonathan Bigelow, 21, was charged with assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and public intoxication. Police […]
SAN JOSE CA Nov 22 2017 A San Jose State University police officer was briefly hospitalized after being punched while responding to a disturbance at the campus-run Hammer Theatre overnight, a university spokeswoman said Tuesday. Two officers on patrol in the area of the theater at 101 Paseo de San Antonio, located a few blocks from […]
Atlanta GA Nov 19 2017 Atlanta Public Schools is dealing with another cheating investigation. A quarter of the police officers in the district’s recently sworn-in force admitted receiving answers on a state-administered test. Disciplinary proceedings are coming for at least 18 employees. One dispatcher allegedly fed answers to 17 officers while they took the open-book, 30-question, […]
Hamden CT Oct 12 2017 With the addition of guns to arm officers in 2014, Quinnipiac University’s Public Safety added body cameras to its arsenal of advancements. Put into use in late August 2017 after Public Safety was trained and certified, the small, versatile cameras are meant to protect officers and students alike by providing visual […]
BATON ROUGE, La. Oct 12 2017— Ten people were arrested Wednesday on misdemeanor hazing charges in the death of a Louisiana State University fraternity pledge whose blood-alcohol content was more than six times the legal limit for driving, officials said. One of the 10 suspects — Matthew Alexander Naquin, 19, of Boerne, Texas — also […]
LUBBOCK, Texas Oct 10 2017 A Texas Tech University police officer was shot and killed Monday evening by a suspect brought to the police station for a standard debriefing, police said. The suspect is in custody after he was caught near the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum. The university has identified the alleged gunman as 19-year-old Hollis Daniels. […]