Why UO needs police with guns?

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 total male population, yet represented 19 percent of the perpetrators reported for sexual assault. Things don’t appear to have changed much since then. Women were the alleged victims in at least 22 of the 125 arrests involving basketball and football players so far this year. That’s almost 20 percent. Most of these — 14 — involved domestic violence.

But there are costs as well. We wrote before about how UO’s former DPS Director had organized an anti-tailgating raid at his previous job that led to the shooting death of one of his armed officers by city police. Here’s another case:

The University of Florida has spent nearly $88,000 following the shooting of a doctoral student by a campus police officer – and that’s just the costs of hiring a defense attorney to represent the university, paying an outside firm to conduct reviews and providing six months’ salary to the fired commanding officer at the scene. Those costs represent the initial phase of the case, which ended Wednesday with the UF Police Department’s release of its internal affairs investigation and decision to not renew the contract of the commanding officer, Lt. Stacy Ettel. The next phase could be more expensive, including a possible settlement or civil judgment awarded to the student, Kofi Adu-Brempong.

Now the police officer is suing UF too. Meanwhile UF has settled with the graduate student for an undisclosed sum. He was a polio victim who used a cane and had delusions of persecution. The consultant charged UF $55,000 to recommend they try mandatory counseling next time.