UC Davis Pepper Spray Investigation Lead By Group That Works For Wall Street Firms
“The University is literally hiring the same security company that is protecting the financial service industry,” Meister told HuffPost… In the open letter, Meister also wrote that Kroll’s parent company, Providence Private Equity, is a “major global investor in for-profit higher education companies that benefit from the decline of publicly funded higher education.” Other professors were pessimistic about any investigation, after seeing reviews of controversial campus police action before. Catherine Cole, a professor in the theater department of the UC Berkeley campus, said “There’s a lot of suspicion about these reports and investigations that don’t lead to anything [despite taking a lot of time].”
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by Tyler Kingkade, The Huffington Post.