Lind: Pondering police presence
Dear Chief Perrotti:
So what’s up with all the police around campus?
We’ve been looking pretty hard for information from you on this, and we haven’t found any. No loving postscript in any of your emails, no “Coffee and Donuts with the Yale Police” question-and-answer session, not even a page on your Security Awareness Web site. It’s tempting to believe that it’s all in our heads; maybe we forgot things over the summer, or maybe we’ve just gotten more paranoid. But the evidence is pretty clearly there, and many have noticed.
We’ve seen the patrol cars circling...
Dara, what do you have to hide anyway? I am glad the police officers are around, and they are very friendly. Be grateful you've got this security, and what are you trying to hide? Last night's drunken bouts?
And Dara, you would likely be first in line to complain about a lack of police preesence on campus. We find the fact that the figure in the dark is an officer and not a criminal quite comforting.
More police presence is exactly what we need. A recent spike in dangerous crime has been very apparent to me, and I've always thought that Yale should focus more of its resources and attention on the priority of student safety by increasing the police presence until muggings are no longer a common occurrence. This is one of the best places for Yale to spend its money. The YPD is taking action - bravo!
Dear Dara Lind,
Who are you to say that you speak for all, or for any, of us? It is at the height of pretension to assume that your generally rude and tortuously convoluted "open letter" to Chief Perrotti finds any support in the Yale community.
By all means, embarrass yourself with your opinion on campus police presence. But don't put this on our heads.
Sincerely,
The Members of the Yale Community