Monday, December 29


Opinion: UCPD is using less-than-lethal munitions to ‘frighten students into conformity’

This post was updated Nov. 30 at 7:05 p.m. A university police department should protect its students, not harm them. But in late September, the UC Board of Regents approved a UCPD request for less-than-lethal munition launchers and sponge rounds. Read more...

Photo: An officer carrying a less-than-lethal weapon on campus is pictured. Columnist Michael Gallagher writes that the approval of UCPD’s request for less-than-lethal munitions marks a dangerous suppression of free speech. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)