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Are_grits_groceries

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Mon Aug 25, 2014, 04:50 AM Aug 2014

The University of Missouri should be very ashamed of this: [View all]

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11385234

And they aren't the only ones.
Campus cops should NEVER handle sexual assault cases. Even in big cities with large PDs, there are usually trained personnel to gather evidence and to talk to both the accused and the accusers. Survivors don't need to be traumatized again if at all possible, and the evidence has to be gathered carefully.

Google Lawrence Phillips and The University of Nebraska for an older example. Vanderbilt, The University of Texas and more have recently had cases with football players.

I always keep my fingers crossed that this never happens at my alma mater. As much as I don't believe it would happen, I am not naive enough to believe that it can't. I'd give them more hell than they could handle if it did happen. I won't close ranks around anybody for problems like this.
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