Harvard University closed a police station located in a residential hall because students' felt that their presence was a “violent, visual intimidation tactic.”
A resident in the Mather House, Faith Woods, told the news outlet that the police are not present to"keep me actively safe."are not there to keep me actively safe," Woods said."Having a police car sitting outside of Mather every night — which it does — doesn’t bring me any sense of safety."A Harvard University police officer blocks off access to the Harvard Yard following a bomb threat that was made on campus on November 16, 2015 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"The decision to close the Mather House substation was made last week in response to concerns raised by Mather House staff and students as well as the amount of use of the substation by officers and community members," the spokesperson said. "The real effect that the presence of the HUPD substation has on the Mather community is simply a violent, visual intimidation tactic that students are forced to see every time they enter the house," Taylor said.
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