Sexual Assaults and Misconduct should come to us, not to some secretive council.
I've been wondering about this sort of thing ever since I started reading about this and similar cases in the US - where I live, of course a rape would be reported to the police (not "college police", as we don't have that, but rather normal police). Any university disciplinary measures would follow far after that, and reporting a crime to the university rather than police would not occur to me.
ETA: That's not to say colleges here don't and didn't try to keep sexual harassment hidden. I know about a few cases of professors sexually harassing students, and it's not supposed to be hidden, but when in doubt higher authority tries to find a way to make out things were totally consensual and so on. They'd probably draw the line at covering violent rape, but "flirting" or "jokes"... they like to point out that all are adults and ignore the power difference there.
Of course the university culture here is totally different in any case and, I think, a lot less conducive to cases such as the ones described in the OP - which is also something I wonder about. I've been reading about those "frat parties" and how rape is apparently some almost-to-be-expected feature that people laugh about, and I keep wondering why colleges seem to protect them so much. I guess it's money and the fact that they are men?
I hope things change at your workplace. It sounds like an incredible frustrating place for you to work in if you care about change and awareness of these issues.
where I live, of course a rape would be reported to the police (not "college police", as we don't have that, but rather normal police).
Not sure about other such departments around the country, but our department at least is a fully-accredited Police Department. We also oversee the University's security, with one of the Lts. being the Head of Security. I dunno whether that is the standard or not, since we have the bonus unique factors of a major Level 1 trauma center and an open-campus.
I hope things change at your workplace. It sounds like an incredible frustrating place for you to work in if you care about change and awareness of these issues.
Honestly, I love it here. The University itself obviously has issues, but that's primarily the Academic side and here in the PD we're all pretty aware of things/want change. We're all pretty pissed at the idea that the University's admins have been essentially covering up and aiding major crimes that we are explicitly here to address. (The article mentions the City Police because we have a Jurisdiction overlap with them. Generally, if the property isn't strictly one that belongs to the University (Frats houses are private property), we let them be the primary.)
I've been wondering about this sort of thing ever since I started reading about this and similar cases in the US - where I live, of course a rape would be reported to the police (not "college police", as we don't have that, but rather normal police). Any university disciplinary measures would follow far after that, and reporting a crime to the university rather than police would not occur to me.
ETA: That's not to say colleges here don't and didn't try to keep sexual harassment hidden. I know about a few cases of professors sexually harassing students, and it's not supposed to be hidden, but when in doubt higher authority tries to find a way to make out things were totally consensual and so on. They'd probably draw the line at covering violent rape, but "flirting" or "jokes"... they like to point out that all are adults and ignore the power difference there.
Of course the university culture here is totally different in any case and, I think, a lot less conducive to cases such as the ones described in the OP - which is also something I wonder about. I've been reading about those "frat parties" and how rape is apparently some almost-to-be-expected feature that people laugh about, and I keep wondering why colleges seem to protect them so much. I guess it's money and the fact that they are men?
I hope things change at your workplace. It sounds like an incredible frustrating place for you to work in if you care about change and awareness of these issues.
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Not sure about other such departments around the country, but our department at least is a fully-accredited Police Department. We also oversee the University's security, with one of the Lts. being the Head of Security. I dunno whether that is the standard or not, since we have the bonus unique factors of a major Level 1 trauma center and an open-campus.
I hope things change at your workplace. It sounds like an incredible frustrating place for you to work in if you care about change and awareness of these issues.
Honestly, I love it here. The University itself obviously has issues, but that's primarily the Academic side and here in the PD we're all pretty aware of things/want change. We're all pretty pissed at the idea that the University's admins have been essentially covering up and aiding major crimes that we are explicitly here to address. (The article mentions the City Police because we have a Jurisdiction overlap with them. Generally, if the property isn't strictly one that belongs to the University (Frats houses are private property), we let them be the primary.)
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They all suck, but they are "real" cops.
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