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California State University Student Government Voted To Defund Police. Administrators Won’t Do It.

Ashe Schow
California State University Student Government Voted To Defund Police. Administrators Won’t Do It.
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Student leaders at California State University-Fullerton in early May voted to defund university police, but it appears administrators won’t follow through.

The College Fix reported that the university’s Associated Students Incorporated passed a resolution on May 4 that called for the university to divest funds from the school’s police department and use that money to hire more mental health counselors. The resolution also called to ban “all aggressive police tactics, lethal firearms, and excessive use of force during student protests, student events, and any other campus situations.”

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