UC Berkeley to use federal funds to purchase $200,000 'armed personnel carrier'

[HK in AK]

LOL....the bastion of liberal thought is now getting militarized!!!!!

[Mordoror]

Apparently dumbass you didn't understand English very well; If they riot I dont give fcuk one how smart they are supposed to be . You dont get an excuse from obeying the law because you go to School. the only way that paints ALL of them is if they ALL Riot. Go back to sniffing underwear again

Oh now giving names. As usual with you... smart and a sign of maturity. Maybe you should try uni, it may help you to socialize a bit and look less like a tool
Bah you are a desperate case, i won't waste my breath with you anymore on this thread.
Have a nice afternoon in you little delusional paranoid world

[Mordoror]

Shut it Mordor. We are critical of the STUPID HIPPIES and CORRUPT UC REGENTS. Not the school itself.

That at least is more clear than "herp derp it's Berkeley"

[Laconian]

You guys do know that UC Berkley PD has a tactical team/body guard unit (called the Special Response Unit), as well as an EOD unit and the Bearcat would be used by them, as they have mutual aid agreements with other agencies.

Don't go clouding the issue with pertinent facts, Dom. Don't take into account that the Bearcat is to be shared by the U cops + 2 other agencies and most likely won't be stored/garaged at Berkely

[LineDoggie]

Oh now giving names. As usual with you... smart and a sign of maturity. Maybe you should try uni, it may help you to socialize a bit and look less like a tool
Bah you are a desperate case, i won't waste my breath with you anymore on this thread.
Have a nice afternoon in you little delusional paranoid world

Amazing professor You cant admit you were wrong about what I said, so go pout somewhere to assuage your french pride.

[Flagg]

Don't go clouding the issue with pertinent facts, Dom. Don't take into account that the Bearcat is to be shared by the U cops + 2 other agencies and most likely won't be stored/garaged at Berkely

One thing that has always left me scratching my head is the jillions of different LE organizations in the US.

I totally understand the Federal and State cop org stuff.

I even get the city/county cop org stuff.

What leaves me scratching my head is the university cop type orgs......I would have thought it would make more sense for say a huge university like Penn State University to be policed by the city police department in which it is co-located......I find that quite odd.

[Laconian]

One thing that has always left me scratching my head is the jillions of different LE organizations in the US.

I totally understand the Federal and State cop org stuff.

I even get the city/county cop org stuff.

What leaves me scratching my head is the university cop type orgs......I would have thought it would make more sense for say a huge university like Penn State University to be policed by the city police department in which it is co-located......I find that quite odd.

I don't know for sure, but I think it's all about control. The university admin can dictate what they want their cops to do. Plus, any money the UPD makes with traffic & parking fines and such goes to the school, not the city/county. In many cases "townies" don't necessarily like the colleges, too.

[Dominique]

One thing that has always left me scratching my head is the jillions of different LE organizations in the US.

I totally understand the Federal and State cop org stuff.

I even get the city/county cop org stuff.

What leaves me scratching my head is the university cop type orgs......I would have thought it would make more sense for say a huge university like Penn State University to be policed by the city police department in which it is co-located......I find that quite odd.

Some universities actually own more land and have larger budgets than some small towns, plus they don't want the local government poking their noses into what they consider to be the school's business.

[G-AWZT]

Hippies are best thwarted with threats off massed baths.

[Arnie100]

Hippies are best thwarted with threats off massed baths.

Wouldn't that be considered "cruel and unusual punishment"?

[abcusmc]

I think Mordoror has a point fellas, the idea of "UC Berkeley the hippie school" is outdated. Very few of its students are like that. Most are the smart kids from southern CA. (read: Asians. Yeah, I said it) While most of its students are on the left politically, the same can be said for almost every University in the USA. On the other hand, non University Berkeley residents are some of the most radical left wingers in the Country. I would be willing to bet that most of the Occupy crowd seen in the area lately are not students. Berkeley, no matter how hippie it is, is a hard school and the serious students have better things to do. Berkeley city fathers letting the homeless run rampant and refusing to enforce laws causes a lot of problems there.
So there.

what he said. UC chancellors always fight the city over demolishing people's park which is just a cesspit for homeless when it's actually UC property. most of the protestors and professional hippies are city/bay area residents. the students are too busy studying/partying or some combo thereof. that's all the southwest side of campus. i was an engineer on northside and stayed in the southeast side near greek row etc which is quite nice towards the claremont resort etc.

Still one of the best schools in the country and proud to be a golden bear!!

[James]

I wonder what operation pink has to say about this.

[G-AWZT]

Wouldn't that be considered "cruel and unusual punishment"?

Only if one uses 20 Mule Team Borax. It get's the hippy off the hippie.