{"id":14326,"date":"2020-06-02T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T13:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=14326"},"modified":"2020-06-03T17:16:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T21:16:37","slug":"why-does-bc-have-police-with-guns-on-campus-when-some-other-institutions-have-only-security-personnel-who-dont-carry-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/06\/02\/why-does-bc-have-police-with-guns-on-campus-when-some-other-institutions-have-only-security-personnel-who-dont-carry-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does BC have police with guns on campus, when some other institutions have only security personnel who don\u2019t carry weapon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The short answer is that Massachusetts law allows the state police to appoint college &amp; university employees as special state police officers. It&#8217;s not clear when this special status began. There is one mention of Newton Police being called to handle protesters in 1971, so it&#8217;s possible BC&#8217;s security at that time was less robust. I&#8217;ll have my assistants look further into why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short answer is that Massachusetts law allows the state police to appoint college &amp; university employees as special state police officers. It&#8217;s not clear when this special status began. There is one mention of Newton Police being called to handle protesters in 1971, so it&#8217;s possible BC&#8217;s security at that time was less robust. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/06\/02\/why-does-bc-have-police-with-guns-on-campus-when-some-other-institutions-have-only-security-personnel-who-dont-carry-weapon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why does BC have police with guns on campus, when some other institutions have only security personnel who don\u2019t carry weapon?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-14326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-bcpd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14335,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326\/revisions\/14335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}