Instead, the school proposed a deal where, in the future, if a student were caught shoplifting, we’d call the dean instead of the police. School campuses are l

Instead, the school proposed a deal where, in the future, if a student were caught shoplifting, we’d call the dean instead of the police. School campuses are like fiefdoms these days. A lot of schools have their own campus police and handle cases between students internally, but asking local townsfolk to use their own arbiters instead of the police is really something else. Tangentially related I helped a friend with move-in day recently and they told me international students had been there for 2 weeks already... quarantining... in a city where all mask mandates ended months ago. It all seems so performative.