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The author at University Update in a related article titled Private Law Enforcement, by Arnold Kling writes:
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John Thacker writes:
But how would Duke treat a University of Maryland student who happened to be visiting the campus? Presumably fairly. Who cares about Maryland? They're not a rival of ours. The bigger problem is the proximity of Carolina. Posted May 23, 2007 7:34 AM
John Goes writes:
Because when someone from Canada comes to the US and gets accused of rape, there is no justice. Posted May 23, 2007 8:06 AM
spencer writes:
Don't most Universities actually have private police forces. Moreover, the problem with the Duke case was not the police, rather it was the court system through the prosecutor. It is funny, the evidence is overwhelming that the legal system regularly railroads innocent people. Posted May 23, 2007 1:39 PM
James writes:
"But in regularly reading conservative, libertarian blogs one would never have had any idea that there was any problems with the legal system until it tried to railroad a group of prosperous, well educated white boys." Liar. Did you really not catch any libertarian mentioning Martha Stewart, "War on Terror" detainees, Suzette Kelo, countless brown skinned immigrants, Cory Maye, other dark skinned poorly educated victims of the drug war and so on? Hint: If you were correct in your views, you wouldn't have to be so dishonest or deliberately obtuse in your claims. Posted May 23, 2007 5:07 PM
R. Richard Schweitzer writes:
Does anyone remember how the faculty, trustees, and activists reacted at Duke? Posted May 23, 2007 7:54 PM
Alex writes:
I would hate to think what a University judicial system would have done to those kids. If you disagree consider what happens to violators of speech codes on campuses over the last 15 years. Each time, the institution's interest come before the students interest, or some lofty goal of fairness. Any judicial system is going to have false negatives and false positives. The question is how you set the rules and the influence on the rules on the ratio of these false outcomes on each side to the correct result, whatever that is. Posted May 24, 2007 3:00 PM
John Thacker writes:
Duke does have a private police force. It's not deputized by the city, so all they can do is impound cars on private property or ask people to leave. (Well, they can withhold grades and garnish paychecks if you're a student or employee.) Posted May 24, 2007 10:49 PM
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