From PrivateOfficerBreakingNews:
KEARNEY, Neb. Sept 21 2018 — After 44 years without carrying guns, the University of Nebraska at Kearney police now are armed.
On Aug. 27, eight of UNK’s full-time certified Nebraska police officers started carrying Glock .40-caliber weapons, said UNK Police Chief Jim Davis. It cost about $10,000 to equip officers with weapons and for training.
“Our students and our campus community will be safer with armed officers,” UNK spokeswoman Kelly Bartling said.
The change was made, she said, after conversations with other police chiefs in the university system in an effort to align UNK police policies, procedures, standards and equipment with those peer agencies.
UNK’s weapons are the same as those carried by Buffalo County sheriff’s deputies and Kearney Police Department officers.
Not everyone is in favor of arming UNK police.
Jonathan Dettman, associate professor and chair of the department of modern languages at UNK, said he thinks firearms make every police interaction with a student or community member a potentially lethal one.
“The national epidemic of police violence against people of color should make us wonder whether police do not, in fact, constitute a risk to certain individuals in our community,” Dettman said.
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