Reply #29: I see this happening in my own community. [View All]

[antigone382]

I'm from a town dominated by a very powerful private university, with a campus police force that, for some very odd reason, has jurisdiction off campus, and even off the domain of the university. It's complex to explain how this works, but basically the vice chancellor acts as the mayor of the town, which is technically on the university property...but again, the campus police have jurisdiction off university property as well.

It is well known, and in fact stated by the campus police themselves, that they try not to arrest students when they get caught doing something illegal, but rather send them through the university's own disciplinary process. However, they do not deal with the local working class people the same way. Working class kids are arrested and sent through the judicial system, and then banned from the campus, which effectively denies them access to jobs available on campus. However, I have seem for myself men in orange jumpsuits doing the landscaping on campus grounds. Landscaping is a pretty decent paying job around here, that a lot of the kids here know how and would be willing to do. It's a pretty sweet deal...send a guy through the local justice system, and pay him pennies an hour for a job that would normally be somewhere in the area of $12-$15 per hour.