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Jameson Resident ‘Swatted’ Over Break Amid Rising Incidents Statewide
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A fraudulent ‘swatting’ call to the CUPD early in the morning on April 4 resulted in an innocent international first-year student held at gunpoint.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-police/)
A fraudulent ‘swatting’ call to the CUPD early in the morning on April 4 resulted in an innocent international first-year student held at gunpoint.
The Student Assembly passed a resolution calling for Cornell Police disarmament during its last meeting of the semester on Thursday.
While the protest occurred at the CUPD headquarters, the other target of organizers was clear: Recalling the 15 Student Assembly voting members who voted against the resolution.
With a lack of public press conferences, investigations updates and public interface commonplace in even the IPD, it is clear that CUPD should — at least — be subject to the same student-interaction level that nearly every other facet of campus is mandated to.
Last month in Quantico, Virginia, Jeffery S. Montesano, chief deputy officer of Cornell University Police Department, became a graduate of the FBI National Academy — only the third person from the University to do so.
More than 100 first responders and 40 volunteers acting as victims will trial a broad range of procedures “in a simulated emergency incident” from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m on Sunday
The Ithaca Police Department responded to a bomb threat this morning at the Tompkins Financial site around 8:25 a.m.
The civil rights activist gave an invigorating lecture on the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and on her own motivation for scaling a 30-foot flagpole in front of the South Carolina statehouse in 2015 to remove a Confederate flag.
Honan joined the Cornell Police Department at a friend’s encouragement in 1995 and has stayed ever since, rising through the ranks. In March, he’ll take over as the department’s first new chief in almost a decade.
While many students remain unbothered by the lack of information about Cornell’s search and only know the police chief by her emails, some are pushing for students to advise Cornell in selecting the first new police chief in nearly a decade.