"MIT police" is absolutely not a misnomer: they are a civilian police force tied to the University, with their jurisdiction set to the bounds of MIT property.[0

"MIT police" is absolutely not a misnomer: they are a civilian police force tied to the University, with their jurisdiction set to the bounds of MIT property.[0] Their website is a .mit.edu address.[1] Your second statement is misleading, in that MIT did not decline to press charges, they just declined to press charges with regard to criminal trespass and breaking-and-entering.[2] Interestingly, the MIT police arraigned Swartz on precisely those charges; it was only later that the charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act were used.[3] Further, MIT insisted on seeking time-behind-bars for Swartz! From the Wikipedia article for US v Aaron Swartz: 'Marty Weinberg [Swartz's lawyer] said he nearly negotiated a plea bargain in which Swartz would not serve any time. "JSTOR signed off on it," he said, "but MIT would not."'[4] So, all-in-all, I would say it is pretty ironic coming from an MIT blog. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_Police_Department https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Tec... [1] https://police.mit.edu/ https://police.mit.edu/ [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150912185122/https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2011/07/mit-also-pressing-charges-against-hacking-suspect-037709 https://web.archive.org/web/20150912185122/https://www.polit... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz