‘ UCLA did not…have any ideas for how to listen to school problems,’ group stated
The University of California, Los Angeles may produce “long-term”, “fundamental, architectural modifications” after months of destructive anti-Israel protests wreaked havoc on college, a watchdog group analysis just concluded.
The university displayed” deficiencies, performance problems, techniques breakdown, and school safety issues” during the school protests in April and May, including one , during which an agent was injured,  , the 21st Century Policing Solutions document states.
The watchdog group made recommendations to “make sure UCLA’s reaction to acts of civil disobedience is in line with its commitments to the safety of the health, security, and well-being of the UCLA society.”
The party called for the school to develop a complete school safety plan and response strategy, employ staff training on campus disruptions, determine the roles of campus leaders during emergencies, increase UCLA Police Department training, and create new campus roles, among other measures.
The document also called the school’s management of the protests” chaotic”. The business stated:
In addition to implementing community-driven processes to determine public health objectives and goals, and by putting more sources at the disposal of legislation enforcement to help those goals, UCLA will need to address the possibility of making fundamental, structural changes to its public health ecosystem in the long run.
In the short-term, however, UCLA must make immediate changes and develop plans to effectively respond to campus disruptions using existing resources. We find it encouraging that UCLA has already started implementing these necessary changes.
According to the report, “UCLA did not, at the time of the encampment, have any plans for how to deal with campus disruptions and how to make decisions about University responses.”
According to the report, university leaders lacked” a widely understood process for making decisions” and were unable to “react quickly to rapidly-changing events and dynamic circumstances on campus.”
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In the spring, protesters set up a so-called Jewish Exclusion Zone on campus. Students were restricted to entering if they had shown support for their anti-Israel cause. As a result, Jewish students sued the university, accusing UCLA of permitting the exclusive zone and allowing the protestors ‘ protection.
During another protest, riot police cleared out a pro-Palestinian encampment and arrested hundreds of demonstrators. The campus was covered with blankets and graffiti, and classes were canceled, The College Fix previously reported.
U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi ordered UCLA to safeguard Jewish students who were returning to campus for the fall semester in August.
According to Mark Rienzi, a student attorney representing the students,” the question is still whether UCLA will fully comply with Judge Scarsi’s order and take concrete steps to protect Jewish students on its campus.”
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