1/7/2011: Mat Wolf of the ODE has a good story about UO VP Frances Dyke’s efforts to convert our Department of Public Safety to an armed police force. We’ve written before about the scandals involving the two past DPS directors. Back in 2008 Daily Emerald reporter Ryan Knutson won a…
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12/21/2010: OK, actually this NY Times story has nothing to say about Doug Tripp and Frances Dyke’s plan to convert DPS to an expensive and well armed police department. They are writing about the general need for more mental health counselors for college students. You do the math.
12/8/2010: Not sure this is a new job, but it looks like Frances Dyke is giving DPS a new administrator to keep track of all the money she is throwing at them. Presumably this will be paid for out of the $3 million that she just took back from the…
11/24/2010: When I got the campus alert involving Sunday’s sexual assault on campus, I wondered how long it would take DPS to use it to argue they need more money and police powers. Not long. This would be slightly more plausible if they weren’t pissing away the 110% budget increase…
11/2/2010: Last year Emerald reporters Alex Tomchak Scott and Dave Martinez were the first to figure out that Frances Dyke and Doug Tripp were using student, staff and faculty parking fees to subsidize the new Matt Court underground parking garage. The Emerald editors ripped into this. Of course, nothing happened…
10/9/2010: Update, the DPS budget for 2006-2011 is here. Up a bit more than 100% *before* the costs of converting to a sworn force.. The whole of the College of Arts and Sciences, for comparison, is up a bit less than 50%. Apparently DPS is having a hard time spending…
My god: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/nyregion/30suicide.html?hp Three lives. Universities need to spend money on counseling for their students, not police. Sell those new police interceptors and start hiring on Monday.
9/28/2010: In several recent posts I’ve said or implied that the Dyke-Tripp proposal is to create an armed UO police force. This is wrong, and an informed reader clarifies: … the proposal on the table is to have the DPS officers elevated to the status of police officers WITHOUT arming…
9/27/2010: Mat Wolf of the ODE has a story on Friday’s riot. Remember all those stories about how computers and texting make our students withdraw from reality? Never mind – turns out somebody organized a party with facebook and it got out of control, the cops were called, and now…
9/26/2010: I’m hoping that the Friday night freshman riots don’t turn into a regular event. I also hope that DPS does not attempt to use them as a reason for yet another big budget increase. 110% in 6 years, while crime rates are decreasing, should be enough. So long as…
9/15/2010: Despite the steady national, state, and local declines in property crime and violent crime (reported in recent front page stories in the RG and the Oregonian), and the continued decline in state support for UO, it turns out that Frances Dyke has authorized some pretty serious and expensive efforts…
9/10/2010: From a Sports Illustrated column: … a national study in 1995 that examined the campus police records and internal judicial affairs records at 20 Division I institutions, most of which had top basketball or football programs. Among other things, we found that male student-athletes comprised 3.3 percent of the…
8/31/2010: (Updated with new budget info and below with sombrero photo and details.) A commenter asks about the move to convert the current DPS into an armed campus police force. Greg Bolt’s RG story is here. Here are the budget numbers for DPS for 2005-11. (Ignore the parking numbers, those…