(01-18-2020 05:42 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-18-2020 04:45 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-18-2020 04:42 PM)Mav Wrote:  

(01-18-2020 04:02 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-18-2020 01:21 PM)JRsec Wrote:  The campus police, DA, and State Attorney didn't exactly jump on the Sandusky case either. So if you are trying to dismiss this based on the initial investigations of the report then the weight of history there, and in other college towns where the university is the main employer is on your gullibility, and not his lack of evidence.

I have a feeling that the truth in this one is going to slowly be extracted. And for the record this isn't James Franklin's first crap show either.

Look at South Bend or Tallahassee or Missoula for examples of college town police response.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2...453381002/
If you're not laughing you're crying.

Right, I knew which sources to cite, but that always leads discussion away from the OP. The list at Tallahassee is long and varied and hit a low point with Winston. the rape suicide back in 70's at N.D. was another disturbing one. But there are many. This is same song second verse at Happy Valley, and ditto for the coach.

South Bend and Missoula (and Tallahassee of course) had recent examples.

The average poster on this board is getting much younger. The older guys know the depth of the problems, the younger ones have no idea that these issues may predate their births. There are some institutions which you and I would immediately recognize as having been problematic for decades. It doesn't hurt that they realize this or look it up.

I basically chimed in because of the knee jerk defense of the findings of the D.A. based on the latest Penn State issues.

Yeah, even as an alum, it's tough to defend what they do and have out there in Centre County. They have their own police force there in University Park; there isn't another force that has the actual Penn State University Park campus under its jurisdiction, spare a few satellite buildings, UP polices its own.

You have the university and police department "investigating" this; we see how there could be a conflict of interest here, right? Even giving Bellefonte investigations the benefit of the doubt that they'll "get to the bottom of it," you still have to work with UP&PS and PSU feeding you content they collected in their own findings.

Reporting structure was precisely the problem with the Sandusky stuff. The cast changed up there, but the infrastructure didn't. Culture surely hasn't changed. Even if it does, it takes a lot of time. And up in Centre County, you don't have much else keeping UP and State College in check. It's like Palpatine in that last Star Wars prequel movie..."I am the senate." The school runs the show up there.