UCLA creates high-level post to oversee campus safety after security lapses in mob attack

[SouthBayDem]

Source: LA Times

UCLA has moved swiftly to create a new chief safety officer position to oversee campus security operations, including the campus Police Department, in the wake of what have been called serious lapses in handling protests that culminated in a mob attack on a pro-Palestinian student encampment last week.

Chancellor Gene Block announced Sunday that Rick Braziel, a former Sacramento police chief who has reviewed law enforcement responses in high-profile cases across the country, will serve as associate vice chancellor of a new Office of Campus Safety. He will oversee the Police Department — including Police Chief John Thomas, who is facing calls to step aside — and the Office of Emergency Management.

Braziel previously was tapped to review police actions in the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting; riots in Ferguson, Mo.; the shootout with police killer Christopher Dorner; and other cases. He will report directly to Block in a unit that will focus solely on campus safety — an arrangement that has proved effective at major universities across the country, the chancellor said. Previously, the campus police chief and the Office of Emergency Management reported to Administrative Vice Chancellor Michael Beck.

Block also announced a new advisory group to partner with Braziel. Members include UC Davis Police Chief Joseph Farrow, the respected chair of the UC Council of Police Chiefs; Vickie Mays, UCLA professor of psychology and health policy and management; and Jody Stiger, UC systemwide director of community safety.

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-05/ucla-creates-high-level-post-to-oversee-campus-safety-after-security-lapses-in-mob-attack

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

1. That Was Disturbing To Watch

Goon squads hopefully are not a predictor of more political violence in the near future.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. People here were cheering it.

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5. Some People

It’s obvious some people are obsessed with certain things and sometimes even themselves. And things we despise in others we sometimes become and are not self-aware. Intolerance takes many forms.

[OrangeJoe]

8. Mossad helping LA Sheriff's Department

I saw a good TicToc of a former Mossad agent telling how he was working with the LA Sheriff's Department to infiltrate the demonstration and helping to break them up. The massive public relations campaign, which has included new posters on many left sites is clearly state run.

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2. Will they be equipped with Pegasus software?

Asking for a friend.

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4. There is only one way to stop this violence

Send Donnie Dipshit and the MAGA Fucksticks he's foisted on American to the ash heep of history.

There is ONE PARTY that has embraced, excused and fomented political violence as a "norm".

There is ONE PARTY that has failed to denounce political violence.

The Retrumplican Party created, enabled, encouraged, excused and celebrated violence as a means to gain and retain power.

I may not be the brightest light in the harbor, but I know what the real threat to peace, justice and democracy is, and it ain't a bunch of misguided college students.

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6. 💯💯💯

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7. I Just Feel Sorry For Civilians On Both Sides

Too many people’s lives are in the hands of someone else. We are killing the planet and each other. How sad. This article made me think. https://thecradle.co/articles/probe-shows-israel-sympathizers-sparked-ucla-violence