<p>Just found this article which may be of some interest:</p>
<p>College</a> police forces increasingly expand reach</p>
<p>Any thoughts on possible issues or implications of expanding the reach of campus police officers, especially those from private universities?</p>
<p>It looks like the police at some of the universities in DC “are commissioned special police, vested through the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department with full powers of arrest on campus property” (according to [ABOUT</a> - Department of Public Safety](<a href=“http://police.georgetown.edu/about/]ABOUT”>About | Georgetown University Police Department | Georgetown University) ).</p>
<p>At USC our campus police have an agreement with the LAPD that makes them peace officers with the right of arrest on and off campus (within a specific radius). This is because USC’s campus is tiny, and the vast majority of students live off campus. As a result, the area surrounding the campus has become much, much safer, as it’s more patrolled than other areas of Los Angeles.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that USC’s DPS officers are academy trained, and many are ex cops. USC also has extensive surveillance equipment on and off campus.</p>
<p>USC’s DPS seems to go out of its way to avoid using the word “police” to describe itself, unlike some other schools where the campus police are real police.</p>
<p>[About</a> Us | USC Career and Protective Services](<a href=“http://capsnet.usc.edu/department/department-public-safety/about-us]About”>http://capsnet.usc.edu/department/department-public-safety/about-us)</p>
<p>The reach of campus police has been a hot topic at Eastern Michigan after there have been 3 murders in off campus apartments in the last year. I think I heard recently that the Ypsilanti police were saying the campus could no longer be an island and there needs to be further collaboration between campus police and city police. I think they need to do whatever it takes to improve safety in the surrounding apartments which are almost exclusively if not exclusively occupied by students.</p>
<p>Even back in the 1980s, I knew that the Harvard Police were sworn law-enforcement officers in Middlesex County, with arrest powers off campus as well as on.</p>
<p>Eastern Michigan’s campus police are real police.
[Eastern</a> Michigan University: Police Department](<a href=“http://www.emich.edu/publicsafety/police/about/index.php]Eastern”>http://www.emich.edu/publicsafety/police/about/index.php)</p>
<p>Harvard’s campus police are “sworn special State Police officers with deputy sheriff powers.”
[Harvard</a> University Police Department](<a href=“http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/hupd_overview.php]Harvard”>http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/hupd_overview.php)</p>
<p>I’m not following you, ucbalum. Are you suggesting that the Harvard Police are not real police?</p>
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[Harvard</a> University Police Department](<a href=“http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/hupd_overview.php]Harvard”>http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/hupd_overview.php)</p>
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<p>No. I am saying that they are.</p>
<p>It is not surprising! a lot of them are just hte city/county police force that happens to have a headquarters on the campus. it’s not like they are just hired private security guards or something in these casses~</p>
<p>@ucbalum–Ah, then I guess I am following you!</p>