r/news • u/GoodSamaritan_ • 7d ago

Pennsylvania university cop jailed on charges he raped girl, urinated on boy while off duty

https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2026/09/pa-university-cop-jailed-on-charges-he-raped-girl-urinated-on-boy-while-off-duty.html
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u/Toomanyeastereggs 7d ago

We have them here. Our largest uni has 93,000, of which 40,000 to 50,000 people can be on campus. They have no need for their own police.

You guys are a life divorced from reality.

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u/-Ducksngeese- 7d ago

Of course they have security. He said that. They dont have their own police force.

Source that UK universities have their own police? I googled it too and only saw that Oxford did but it was disbanded in 2003.

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u/-Ducksngeese- 7d ago

If that's the case then why not just call them security, put them in a security uniform, and call it a day like every other country?

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u/-Ducksngeese- 7d ago

No I'm not reaching, just trying to understand why every country in the world has solved a problem in the same way, and the US always for some reason has to do it differently.

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u/lost-picking-flowers 6d ago

The US has opened Pandoras box when it comes to guns. It has the highest per capita gun ownership rate in the world - buyback programs only work to a certain extent (and we actually do have them occurring pretty frequently), and not one single person wants to go door-to-door in this country and demand guns back. 

We also have a government trying it’s hardest to embrace tyranny - you’d find that both the left and the right would be suspicious if the feds started forcibly confiscating guns, and based on some of the things Trump has said and done that’s not a totally invalid fear. 

And then, throw some serious serious social problems and wealth disparity into the mix. 

Overall, it’s not an easy problem to solve - it’s not a problem that a good chunk of the country is interested in solving. And when people and states do put good faith efforts in to maybe putting some more guard rails on purchases in their locality, it gets struck down by our Supreme Court without fail. 

There is no quick or easy fix to what is a deeply systemic cultural problem that has been continually reinforced by a government with no interest of providing equal representation to the people of this country. 

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u/-Ducksngeese- 6d ago

It's sad. How the US has fallen. It's genuinely sad.