City, campus jurisdictions overlap for police depts.
When Yale Police Department officers broke up Pierson Colleges’s annual Inferno party on Oct. 27, they issued citations to several underage students in possession of alcohol. But many party-goers were confused about the police presence at the party — some even thought the officers were costumed students playing a prank.
“I was surprised,” Nathan Stevens ‘11, who was at the Inferno when the police arrived, said. “I’ve heard they [YPD] were lenient until lately. It’s surprising to me that they were handing out citations for a party going on in Pierson that was pretty much under...
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