And, at least on the evidence of the LA County Sheriff, which only has one innocuous MOU with BIOLA University and on the evidence of the City of Pasadena which has only three, none of them allowing off-campus operations, it’s becoming clear that the relationship between USC and the City of Los Angeles is really, really unusual, at least in this county. 1 This kind of behavior is authorized by a memorandum of understanding between USC and the City of Los Angeles.Īnd as part of my attempt to understand what’s going on with this, I’ve been looking at law enforcement agencies around Los Angeles County and various MOUs they maintain with colleges. And it turns out that they are the only private college in the City of Los Angeles that’s allowed by the LAPD to do this.
They detain and handcuff people for unexplained reasons that can’t possibly have anything to do with their university. Here’s another update on my ongoing attempt to understand why alone of all private college security forces in Los Angeles the Department of Public Safety of the University of Southern California is allowed by the Los Angeles Police Department to operate not just off campus but up to a mile off campus.Īnd they do in fact operate far, far off campus.
