Students’ Insane Plea: No Cops at Columbia U
I cannot believe the Columbia University students who are objecting to the increase of police officers near their campus — especially the one who said, “When you are on campus, you want to feel safe from police violence” (“The Anti-Blue U,” Dec. 12).
Don’t they realize that the police officers are the ones who can protect innocent victims of crimes like Tessa Majors and Davide Giri? Who else do they think will protect them?
John Francis Fox
Sunnyside
The stupidity and bias expressed by the union representing Columbia University’s student teachers and the quotes from the undergraduate students prove without a doubt: There is still such a thing as an “educated fool.”
These little wimps are triggered by the sight of police on and around their campus, even after the killing of two students and one knifing. What a disgrace to the memory of the innocent victims.
One of these students described the presence of public-safety officers near the subway as a “serious problem.” Actually, the problem is the selfcentered ignorance of these characters.
This is what you get in our “best” colleges when education becomes an echo chamber.
Catherine Adago
Manhattan
It made me more than a little sad to read this article.
I thought Columbia was a center for higher education. When I read comments by simpleminded students who are worried about “having a safe place from police violence,” I wonder what criteria Columbia uses for accepting students.
Only some brainwashed individual with no mental acuity would spout such idiocy.
If this is what universities are turning out these days, we are in big trouble. Dictators and strongmen love the simple-minded.
Chase Landreth Hobe Sound,
Fla.
Derrick Haynes, director of Block Renovation City Community Services, gets my vote for “fool of the year” for saying that residents of the Grant and Manhattanville housing projects don’t venture outdoors at night because of an uptick in the police (as opposed to criminal) presence.
What he really should do is call the parents and relatives of murder victims Tessa Majors and Davide Giri and explain to them the logic of his enlightened comment.
Charles Winokoor
Fall River, Mass.
Columbia students’ request to remove all police patrols should be honored.
The young radicals, whose parents pay a king’s ransom for them to attend this socialist university, have determined that slashers and rapists pose less of a threat than the police.
Many of these students are the people calling for no bail, no jail and the defunding of police. Let them experience the result of these policies first hand.
Robert Mangi
Westbury
I actually thought you needed smarts to attend Columbia University, but after reading the article in Sunday’s paper, I have completely changed my mind.
Now some students want the NYPD to leave the campus because they don’t feel safe with police on campus. I say let them fend for themselves, and let’s see the consequences.
I’m sick and tired of these woke individuals trying to run every institution in this country. Without the police, I can just imagine what would go on there.
Maybe the remainder of the student body should block the noise coming from those misinformed individuals.
Philip Vallone
Ossining