Campus police who do not have guns typically rely on armed local police when guns are required. According to the US Justice Dept, the median response time for violent crimes is in the 6-10 minutes range (26.6% within 5 minutes, 32% for 6-10 minutes, 29.7% for 11 minutes to 1 hour).
The other option to relying upon local armed forces would be to secure arms on the college premises in some manner. I have no data about how long it would take to procure secured arms - the campus police would have to travel to the site of the arms (either the individuals who were at the site of the incident, or their backup who were elsewhere on campus), unsecuring the arms, and then traveling to the site of the incident with the arms.
I wonder how much greater the cost overhead would be for securing arms than having the campus police carry arms. Presumably the training would be the same for the police, and I'm under the impression that campus police generally do not take their weapons home when off-duty so they would have to be stored on-site anyway, so perhaps there wouldn't be significantly greater overhead.
The other option to relying upon local armed forces would be to secure arms on the college premises in some manner. I have no data about how long it would take to procure secured arms - the campus police would have to travel to the site of the arms (either the individuals who were at the site of the incident, or their backup who were elsewhere on campus), unsecuring the arms, and then traveling to the site of the incident with the arms.
I wonder how much greater the cost overhead would be for securing arms than having the campus police carry arms. Presumably the training would be the same for the police, and I'm under the impression that campus police generally do not take their weapons home when off-duty so they would have to be stored on-site anyway, so perhaps there wouldn't be significantly greater overhead.
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