Re: Another run-in with the cops.
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Back in the day of the great NIH riots at UCLA (circa 1974) it was common knowledge that if you had to be arrested, you were much better off getting nabbed by LAPD rather that the campus police, who would beat the living [censored] out of you. I think that's changed....
Also, on a lighter note, at one time there were only two police "departments" that issued their officer .454 sidearms - one was somewhere like Laredo Texas, and the other was the campus police at Univerity of Nevada, Reno.
--guess those overdue library book miscreants are tougher than I would have guessed.....
MM MD
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When I was in school, it was well-understood that the campus police were there to keep the students from getting into too much trouble, whereas the "real" police were there to actually enforce the law and arrest people and [censored].
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