• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    And if it never gets reported as a crime… it’s not a “sex crime”, now is it?

    Campus cops are generally paid for by the university rather than a city or state. While they are (usually,) peace officers in the legal sense; they’re still basically a private police force whose paychecks are signed by the school.

    Diverting reports into academic disciplinary complaints is a common way of protecting people the school has an interest in protecting.

    The school gets involved and tries everything they can to protect themselves, including pressuring victims to accept internal processes that generally go no where instead of going to a proper court of law.

    It’s the same as workplace HR departments. They’re going to protect whoever hurts them the least.