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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Mist
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The police force acts under the authority and policies set forth by the university's own Department of Public Safety, so yes, it is.
Mist
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You're right. They're not their own legislature. Legislatures make laws. Law enforcement agencies enforce laws.
New England states are not like other parts of the country that have county-level government. Each municipality has its own independent law enforcement agency, and my university has what is effectively it's own municipal police force, which operates under the authority of its own Department of Public Safety.
I looked it up just to be sure.
State of Rhode Island: State Police:Rhode Island Police Departments
Here you go. The two large Universities in the state both have their own independent police DEPARTMENTS. They're not just cops assigned to the campus that operate under some other law enforcement agency.
Mist
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You're being fucking retarded. It HAS its own law enforcement agency.
URI has it's own Department of Public Safety that is its ownlaw enforcement agencythat is ALSO adepartment of the University. No other municipality has law enforcement jurisdiction over any part of the university, even satellite campuses.
Ditto for Brown.
I know it's weird, but it is actually true.
Mist
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Arbitrary
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Mist
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That's like saying the City of Boston is a not a law enforcement agency.
It isn't. But it's a municipality with its own laws, and has it's own Department of Public Safety with it's own law enforcement agency and its own police force.
It is exactly the same for URI and Brown. They are effectively their own municipalities with their own laws and their own Departments of Public Safety with their own police forces.
It's actually even weirder than this. The University of Rhode Island, somehow, through some legal voodoo, has the right to suspend the constitution of the United States and the RI state constitution and bar ownership, open carry, and state permitted concealed carry of legal firearms on campus by both residents of the university and the university police force. Even Washington DC's gun ban was struck down by the US Supreme Court, but URI's gun ban is still somehow not just a universitypolicy, but an actual municipallawof the University of Rhode Island.
Palum
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I think what you're missing here is that Boston can pass laws which are then enforced by their own police force. A university cannot.
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Right, so they aren't law enforcement agencies.
Why didn't Yale just make a law and then make arrests when people broke that law and put people on trial and upon conviction imprison them? Because it doesn't fucking work that way?
Right, because it doesn't fucking work that way.
Mist
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No, I'm not missing that. That's exactly what I'm saying. URI and Brown have charters from the state that give them effectively the same powers as municipal corporations, the same as all other New England townships. There is no county-level governments in Rhode Island, so towns get to make and enforce all their own laws. So URI and Brown get to make and enforce their own laws just as if they were towns.
New England town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There's a reason this has it's own Wikipedia entry. Because each town in New England is its own municipal corporation and they each have their own legal independence and URI and Brown, by state law, get to act effectively as their own municipal corporations.
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I think in the world that Mist wants all college kids need one of those health watches implanted permanently to see if they have drank anything ever.
Maybe an ankle monitor like Lindsay Lohan? That sure worked out well.
Maybe an ankle monitor like Lindsay Lohan? That sure worked out well.
Mist
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GM Archery/Magery/Stealth/Alchemy because I played a real fucking game, not that horseshit campfest you faggots played.
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So you played Runescape because you were to much of a bitch to handle a game that was hard.
Mist
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