Heather Barrow's Journey
Through Anthropology 250(2)
Chief D. J. Carlson
Some Quotes:
"To me, education is number one, but safety runs with that. If it’s not a safe environment, you’re not gonna learn anything. So I think the education part and the safety part of the university have gotta work hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other, that’s my idea anyway."
"...to educate the students to realize that we’re not the bad guys, just because you may have, you’re only 18-years-old and you’ve had a couple of beers and you did an illegal act, it doesn’t matter at that point… what matters is this illegal act that was done to you. So the Department of Justice feels that a lot of on-campus rapes and assaults are not reported because the student feels that they’re gonna be persecuted for violating some little law like drinking alcohol or something like that so they don’t want to report it at all."
"...I’m hoping that eventually the students will get trust in us through our professionalism to come to us and tell us that 'My boyfriend did this to me.' or 'This guy did this to me.' or whatever and they’ll be assured that we’re gonna handle it in a professional manner."
What was your past experience in law enforcement?
When was the first time that you lost a friend?