UC Berkeley spent $7.8 million to deploy its own forces to wall off and secure People’s Park, the storied 2.8-acre green space that activists seized in the ’60s to serve as a gathering space for nonconformists. That multimillion-dollar total is expected to grow substantially as outside police agencies submit their bills to the university. And the cost of keeping people out of the park continues to be high: The university pays nearly $1 million a month to station private security guards outside the park, 24 hours a day...
Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-28/cost-uc-berkeley-peoples-park-seizure-millions-rising.
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