Columbia University Adds 36 New Campus Patrol Officers with Powers of Arrest
Jonathan Allen | 06 April 2025 | Reuters
NEW YORK, April 4 (Reuters) - The 36 new special patrol officers announced last month by Columbia University were appointed by the New York Police Department and will be subject to the orders of the police commissioner, a Columbia spokesperson confirmed this week.
Columbia's leaders applied to the city's police commissioner for peace officers last year after they had twice called in NYPD to arrest pro-Palestinian student protesters who had set up an unauthorized tent encampment on a campus lawn last spring and barricaded themselves inside an academic building….