The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/police/)
Local police departments are increasing their presence outside of schools following the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas.
Following multiple arson and theft incidents at Ganędagǫ: Hall, increased security measures were introduced, including police presence around the residence hall.
The City of Ithaca and Tompkins County have approved funding for the Community Justice Center, a new establishment intended to implement the 19 recommendations from the historic Ithaca Police Department overhaul proposal.
The Ithaca Police Department has been investigating a suspicious death at the Canopy by Hilton hotel in downtown Ithaca since early afternoon Friday. There is no information that indicates the victim is affiliated with Cornell, according to Cornell University Media Relations.
For months, activists in Ithaca have rallied to defund the police, citing the mistreatment of marginalized people, particularly Black and Indigenous people of color. But the city government has largely pushed back on these calls as the police department has shrunk, stressing the continued need for officers.
The Student Assembly held a town hall meeting for students to voice their thoughts on campus police disarmament to their S.A. representatives.
A three-hour Student Assembly meeting over campus police disarmament turned into a week and a half of online harassment.
Recent arrests during increasingly contentious protests have led to calls for the Ithaca Police Department deputy chief to resign.
Black Lives Matter and Back the Blue rally-goers clashed Saturday on the Commons in a face-off that involved chants and jeers.
The affront on Reed’s doorstep comes after he held a Thursday press conference to clean up graffiti left at the Tompkins County GOP headquarters from the Oct.16 demonstrations that were marked by physical altercations and burning Trump signs.