“I hate that it took me so long to realize this,” the interim police chief at the UUtah said after noticing a pattern in the questions his staff was asking the mostly young students reporting crimes.
. The department’s failure to connect McCluskey with a victim advocate was one of mistakes cited in a later independent review.
That’s a unique part of being at a university, he said. There are so many other avenues where victims can find support. And it helps, too, he said, when most of those reporting crimes are young adults who largely haven’t lived on their own before coming to college. They might not know when to report to police, what to report to police or the resources they have access to, Hinojosa added.
He said he asked the question when he was a patrol officer 24 years ago. “That’s out of my own ignorance,” he said, saying they can do better now.Hinojosa said this question is meant to be genuine and empower victims, but watching the footage from his officers he felt it came across as negative.
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