The New York Post is billing an “exclusive” this week about how Columbia University has systematically failed to report its drug-using student populace to police or prosecutors. The not-so-earth-shattering expose comes on the heels of last week’s big frat house drug bust, which led to the arrests of 5 students. But it’s actually a non-story because — it turns out — other city schools are just as bad, if not worse, at referring campus drug incidents to local authorities!
According to Columbia’s 2009 campus crime report [pdf], last year the school witnessed 121 drug-related incidents in its dormitories that it referred for disciplinary action within the school, but which led to zero arrests by local law enforcement. Implying, as the Post noted, that the prestigious university failed to report any of those incidents to police.
Yet other city schools don’t necessarily fare much better. More »
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