Campus Police Union Blames UCLA for Encampment Violence Response

The union that represents campus police officers at the 10 University of California schools is blaming UCLA administrators for the much-criticized response to violence that broke out at the Westwood campus this week. Federated University Police Officer’s Association said May 4 that the upcoming probe by UC President Michael Drake into the university’s “planning, actions and response by law enforcement” must consider the university’s own guidelines for response to campus protests. “The written guidelines for roles and responsibilities make clear that senior UC administrators on each campus are solely responsible for the University’s response to campus protests; those administrators decide the objective, and campus police are only responsible for tactics in implementing those objectives,” the union’s President Wade Stern said....