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GW administrators made the decision to arm campus police officers in response to heightened gun violence in the country, said University President Mark Wrighton in an April 13 announcement.
Following a year of racist incidents in University classrooms, BSU demanded administrators reform tenure consideration and bias training in academic departments.
The announcement has raised concerns among students that the move will increase the rate of violent encounters at the hands of GWPD officers, especially toward Black and brown students.
We need a holistic approach to campus safety, not one born of desperation and resignation over mass shootings.
The Board of Trustees seems to have embraced the flawed strategy that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.