After Galloway: Schools have no place in sexual-assault investigations

thrway_1000 · 2018-06-18T03:20:34+00:00

Schools have never had a place in these investigations, they're just glorified witch-hunts to satisfy bad regulation.

2018-06-18T03:10:44+00:00

from the article

There are many things postsecondary institutions in this country can learn from Mr. Galloway’s saga and one has to be this: It’s not a university’s job to investigate allegations as serious as rape. Sexual assault is a serious crime in Canada. Police have the mandate to investigate them, not educational institutions. A retired judge called in to parse fact from fiction doesn’t have the same powers to interview witnesses. Maybe the same training and skills either. I understand law-enforcement agencies in this country have a patchy record when it comes to taking allegations of sexual assault seriously – as The Globe and Mail revealed in its award-winning series Unfounded − but the police, and Crown prosecutors, are all we have at the moment.

helpwanted911 · 2018-06-18T10:47:20+00:00

Yeah, no shit! Can you imagine schools having a meaningful investigative role in any other allegation of such a serious crime?

"Hey principal, we just received a bomb threat."

"Ok, assemble the Teacher-Admin Major Crimes Unit."

If it's serious enough to fall into the realm of assault, it's serious enough to fall under the exclusive purview of the criminal justice system.

Mode1961 · 2018-06-18T13:33:53+00:00

The problem imho with schools doing this stuff is the clear Conflict of Interest, the school is trying to make sure it doesn't look bad so they are under a lot of pressure (this is even before Dear College) to make sure they don't get negative PR.

nascarracer99316 · 2018-06-20T22:42:59+00:00

No shit.

Title	After Galloway: Schools have no place in sexual-assault investigations
Author	headingtoshore
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Date	June 18, 2018 3:08 AM UTC (8 years ago)
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