Jun 12, 2020
30 Years of Armed Police at Western
Western Front, May 9, 1980
Western Front, February 6, 1990
Western Front, April 10, 1990
The ongoing protests of police violence have led many to revisit the history of law enforcement in the United States. Armed police officers may seem like a regular part of campus life at Western and other universities, but it was not always that way. With MABEL you can browse back issues of the Western Front, and learn about the years-long campaign to arm WWU campus safety officers that resulted in the 1990 establishment of a campus police department.
