New class of campus police is bigger and better-armed

University police departments are bigger and more likely to arm their officers than a decade ago, according to a recent study by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. In Texas, law enforcement departments on college campuses seem to be ahead of this trend, with nearly 94 percent
of surveyed universities arming their police and just as many employing sworn officers. "Texas is Texas: We are a state that has firearms," said Bill Taylor, chief of police at Rice University, which has sworn and armed officers.

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