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December 18-21 2009
Dec 18: Theft of financial cards: Yahaida Mercedes Perez reported her financial cards were stolen while at Hale Library.
December 19: Graffiti was reported at the Union recreation center bathroom.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Police Log December 11-18 2009
December 11-17
Dec 11: Hit and Run reported: A vehicle was struck while parked. Minor damage was reported.
Dec 15: Burglary reported at Willard hall: The pussycat press print makers reported that between December 11-15 a unknown person entered a room and stole a small safe and $236.00
December 16: Sammuel A Lamur reported his wallet stolen. The loss is reported at $80.00
December 17: Theft from resident Hall. Xuanlin Liu reported a laptop stolen from West Hall. Loss is unknown.
December 17: Non Injury Accident: A report of a non injury accident was reported near the union.
December 17: Theft from the Library: Brin A Miller reported an Ipod stolen while at the Hale Library the loss is $300.00
December 17: Non Injury Accident: K-State police took a report of a non injury accident at Denison and College Heights.
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Friday, December 11, 2009
Police Log Dec 9-11 2009
December 9-11 2009
December 9: Theft of backpack: Molly D Mays reported her backpack and all the contents were stolen from Ackert Hall. The loss is reported at $104.00
December 9: Non Injury Accident was reported on Denison Ave.
December 10: Hit and Run accident reported in a parking lot. A unknown vehicle struck a parked car.
December 10: Theft of Camera: Mohammad Rasekh reported the theft of a Camera from Seaton Hall. Loss is unknown at this time.
December 10: Theft of Projector: K-State Union reported the theft of a projector loss is reported at $700.00
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Report: College Sexual Assaults On The Rise; Students Still Feel Safe
Report: College Sexual Assaults On The Rise; Students Still Feel Safe
By Denise Yost | Managing Editor, nbc4i.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio—A new report claaims that 20 percent of women in college will be raped during their college years—as another study claims universities are greatly under-reporting sexual assaults.
Sexual assaults on and around The Ohio State University campus are rising—more than tripling in the last few years.
According to OSU police, there were seven assaults in 2006, followed by 10 in 2007 and 25 in 2008, NBC 4 Mike Bowersock reported.
Those numbers don’t include sexual assaults in residence halls, which have decreased during the same time period.
“Most of our sexual assaults are, I don’t like to use the term date rape. I don’t believe there’s such a thing as date rape, but a sexual assault is a sexual assault,“ said Deputy Chief of Police Richard Morman, of The Ohio State University Police.
Burglaries and robberies on campus are also down, and students who spoke to NBC 4 said that overall, they feel safe on the OSU campus.
Police said the number they respond to would be higher and the department of justice said that one in five college women will be raped during their college years
By Denise Yost | Managing Editor, nbc4i.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio—A new report claaims that 20 percent of women in college will be raped during their college years—as another study claims universities are greatly under-reporting sexual assaults.
Sexual assaults on and around The Ohio State University campus are rising—more than tripling in the last few years.
According to OSU police, there were seven assaults in 2006, followed by 10 in 2007 and 25 in 2008, NBC 4 Mike Bowersock reported.
Those numbers don’t include sexual assaults in residence halls, which have decreased during the same time period.
“Most of our sexual assaults are, I don’t like to use the term date rape. I don’t believe there’s such a thing as date rape, but a sexual assault is a sexual assault,“ said Deputy Chief of Police Richard Morman, of The Ohio State University Police.
Burglaries and robberies on campus are also down, and students who spoke to NBC 4 said that overall, they feel safe on the OSU campus.
Police said the number they respond to would be higher and the department of justice said that one in five college women will be raped during their college years
Police Log December 7-9 2009
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Police Log December 7-9 2009
Telephone Harassment: K-State Police took a report of telephone harassment. The student reported the phone harassment has been going on since September of 2009.
Aggravated Battery: Andre J McDonald reported being battered and having a tooth knocked out in the parking lot of the Chester Peters Recreation complex. The suspect was known to the victim and the case is under investigation. The incident was a result of an argument.
Theft Report: Kyle F Black reported his bicycle was stolen. Loss is reported at $60.00
Non Injury Accident: K-State Police responded to a non injury accident on Mid Campus Drive where a Road Grader struck a vehicle while removing snow.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Police Log November 30-December 7th 2009
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November 30th -December 7 2009
November 30th: K-State Police Responded to a non injury accident in a parking lot.
November 30th: K-State police responded to a non injury accident in a parking lot.
December 1st: K-State police responded two vehicle non injury accident on Denison Ave.
December 1st: DUI Arrest: Kevin L Cockrum was arrested for Driving Under the Influence.
December 4th. Minor in Consumption: Kellie J Friedel was issued a notice to appear for Minor in Consumption.
December 4th: K-State Police responded to a non injury accident on Dension Ave.
December 4th: K-State police responded to Goodnow Hall for a report of a Controlled Substance report. Arrested was Patrick T Dorsey for possession of Marijuana and drug Paraphernalia.
December 5th: K-State Police responded to a hit and run non injury accident. A vehicle was parked and struck by an unknown vehicle. Minor damage was reported.
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Students first?
Virginia Tech fumbling of Cho massacre ‘excusable’? Examiner.com
Virginia Tech’s new addendum to their original report on the Seung-Hui Cho mass murder documents how authorities mishandled the crisis, possibly enabling Cho to kill more people. But malfeasance like this is just campus business as usual.
The Associated Press reports that campus authorities saw fit to warn family and protect the Virginia Tech president, but didn’t consider students’ lives valuable enough to give them the same warning:
At least two officials with a crisis response team called their family members after the first shootings at a dorm and about 90 minutes before the all-campus alert was issued at 9:26 a.m.. The president's office was locked down at 8:52 a.m. and two academic buildings were also shut down before the general alert.
CNN confirms this by reporting an 8:45 AM email from one campus employee:
" 'Gunman on the loose,' the e-mail read, and then 'This is not releasable yet,' " the report states about the message from an unnamed staffer.
This person told a colleague “'just try to make sure it doesn't get out.” In other words, this is serious enough to tell another to protect his family, but not to warn the students.
From AP:
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said the findings that some school officials called their own family members about the initial shootings in a dorm before an all-campus warning was issued were "inexcusable."
Actually, Governor Kaine, this malfeasance is entirely excusable.
The U.S. Supreme Court case, Deshaney v. Winnebago, shows that all government agencies enjoy blanket immunity from prosecution for failing to provide the protective services. In Deshaney, social service employees failed to protect a child after multiple notices that the boy was beaten by his father. Eventually, the boy “suffered permanent brain damage and was rendered profoundly retarded.” The Supreme Court concluded that despite prior knowledge of the child’s situation:
(a) A State’s failure to protect an individual against private violence generally does not constitute a violation of the Due Process Clause, because the Clause imposes no duty on the State to provide members of the general public with adequate protective services.
(b) There is no merit to petitioner’s contention that the State’s knowledge of his danger and expressions of willingness to protect him against that danger established a “special relationship” giving rise to an affirmative constitutional duty to protect.
While Virginia Tech settled a civil case for $11 million, no criminal charges have been filed against university employees.
The question with civil suits is who pays the settlement in the end. The Roanoke Times reported:
Virginia Tech and Radford University passed relatively modest tuition increases Thursday, thanks in part to federal stimulus money designed to hold down costs of in-state students.
The executive committee of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors voted to increase tuition and fees for in-state undergraduates by 5 percent next year, the lowest percentage tuition and fee raise at the university since 2002.
This means that American taxpayers, and Virginia Tech students and their parents, ended up balancing the university’s bottom line, which includes the additional expense of the settlement.
But the Virginia Tech massacre is only one symptom of a far greater problem that leaves our college-aged children at risk.
The Austin American-Statesman recently reported that federal law requires postsecondary institutions to “maintain a daily crime log open to inspection by anyone and update it within two days of learning about an incident.”
But many Texas colleges aren’t in compliance:
In a report last year, the state auditor's office concluded that 17 of the state's 35 public universities did not include all the required information in their annual security reports. Two schools did not produce the reports at all. And two of six universities whose daily crime logs were examined by the office did not track the date and time of crimes and the disposition of complaints as required.
Despite the fact that these regulations “have the force of law,” there was no mention of criminal charges against college employees.
Meanwhile, the Colorado State University board of governors just voted to ban concealed carry on campus.
Postsecondary institutions appear to have the right to protect their own and leave students at risk. At the same time, they forbid students the right to value their own lives.
No self-reliance, no responsibility, no accountability.
This is what universities teach our children.
(Hat tip to Thomas for this ABC video, which states that it took 90 minutes to warn students, after school officials had already taken steps to protect themselves. ABC concludes that all school officials "still have their jobs.")\\
Virginia Tech’s new addendum to their original report on the Seung-Hui Cho mass murder documents how authorities mishandled the crisis, possibly enabling Cho to kill more people. But malfeasance like this is just campus business as usual.
The Associated Press reports that campus authorities saw fit to warn family and protect the Virginia Tech president, but didn’t consider students’ lives valuable enough to give them the same warning:
At least two officials with a crisis response team called their family members after the first shootings at a dorm and about 90 minutes before the all-campus alert was issued at 9:26 a.m.. The president's office was locked down at 8:52 a.m. and two academic buildings were also shut down before the general alert.
CNN confirms this by reporting an 8:45 AM email from one campus employee:
" 'Gunman on the loose,' the e-mail read, and then 'This is not releasable yet,' " the report states about the message from an unnamed staffer.
This person told a colleague “'just try to make sure it doesn't get out.” In other words, this is serious enough to tell another to protect his family, but not to warn the students.
From AP:
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said the findings that some school officials called their own family members about the initial shootings in a dorm before an all-campus warning was issued were "inexcusable."
Actually, Governor Kaine, this malfeasance is entirely excusable.
The U.S. Supreme Court case, Deshaney v. Winnebago, shows that all government agencies enjoy blanket immunity from prosecution for failing to provide the protective services. In Deshaney, social service employees failed to protect a child after multiple notices that the boy was beaten by his father. Eventually, the boy “suffered permanent brain damage and was rendered profoundly retarded.” The Supreme Court concluded that despite prior knowledge of the child’s situation:
(a) A State’s failure to protect an individual against private violence generally does not constitute a violation of the Due Process Clause, because the Clause imposes no duty on the State to provide members of the general public with adequate protective services.
(b) There is no merit to petitioner’s contention that the State’s knowledge of his danger and expressions of willingness to protect him against that danger established a “special relationship” giving rise to an affirmative constitutional duty to protect.
While Virginia Tech settled a civil case for $11 million, no criminal charges have been filed against university employees.
The question with civil suits is who pays the settlement in the end. The Roanoke Times reported:
Virginia Tech and Radford University passed relatively modest tuition increases Thursday, thanks in part to federal stimulus money designed to hold down costs of in-state students.
The executive committee of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors voted to increase tuition and fees for in-state undergraduates by 5 percent next year, the lowest percentage tuition and fee raise at the university since 2002.
This means that American taxpayers, and Virginia Tech students and their parents, ended up balancing the university’s bottom line, which includes the additional expense of the settlement.
But the Virginia Tech massacre is only one symptom of a far greater problem that leaves our college-aged children at risk.
The Austin American-Statesman recently reported that federal law requires postsecondary institutions to “maintain a daily crime log open to inspection by anyone and update it within two days of learning about an incident.”
But many Texas colleges aren’t in compliance:
In a report last year, the state auditor's office concluded that 17 of the state's 35 public universities did not include all the required information in their annual security reports. Two schools did not produce the reports at all. And two of six universities whose daily crime logs were examined by the office did not track the date and time of crimes and the disposition of complaints as required.
Despite the fact that these regulations “have the force of law,” there was no mention of criminal charges against college employees.
Meanwhile, the Colorado State University board of governors just voted to ban concealed carry on campus.
Postsecondary institutions appear to have the right to protect their own and leave students at risk. At the same time, they forbid students the right to value their own lives.
No self-reliance, no responsibility, no accountability.
This is what universities teach our children.
(Hat tip to Thomas for this ABC video, which states that it took 90 minutes to warn students, after school officials had already taken steps to protect themselves. ABC concludes that all school officials "still have their jobs.")\\
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