Another protest report

From the LA Times: A draft report to the Los Angeles Police Commission released Friday cited a lack of coordination between UCLA, the LAPD and the California Highway Patrol and smaller municipal police agencies that were hastily called to campus in the spring. 

UCLA, which has its own police force, had distanced itself from relying on the LAPD in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests four years ago, a practice that contributed to the poorly coordinated response, the report suggested. Some arriving teams of officers did not even know their way around the sprawling campus and were subjected to conflicting orders about what to do as the melee unfolded for hours in front of them the night of April 30.

The LAPD should take the lead on campus law enforcement ahead of future “large scale events” if university staffing isn’t adequate, the report said.

The report to the commission, the civilian agency tasked with LAPD oversight, came on the heels of a congressional probe that pilloried the university for allowing antisemitism to foment on campus during pro-Palestinian protests...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-11-01/ucla-usc-encampments-police-commission-reports.

===

Note: The Police Commission report is at:

https://www.lapdpolicecom.lacity.org/110524/BPC_24-285.pdf.