By: HH

HH
Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:25:40 +0000

Terrible tragedy, which reportedly took place in a house party that was claimed to be banned. But before this tragedy, large parties and gatherings were being held almost every single day despite the COVID-19 quarantine, most of them last through midnight until 2-3 AM in the mornings. I live within 1 mile of the crime location, and for months prior to this tragedy, I've filed reports to the student conduct office every time I saw a gathering of more than 20 people, and I called Columbus Police non-emergency number concurrently every time. But the only responses I ever heard from student life office was that "the landlord was informed", "we don't have jurisdiction to deal with off-campus area", "please refer this matter to Columbus Police". Meanwhile, CPD had ZERO dispatches in time to the illegitimate parties. None of these terrible tragedies should have happened if either the university or the police had better response to the reports and have taken even a little more responsibility in keeping the community safe and peaceful. In a sense, the blood is on their hands. Instead of posting beautiful condolences through email and claim a lot of positive gestures and activities, Dr. Johnson needs to answer to some more practical questions, like the higher COVID rate off campus than on campus, the defunding of the police, increasing crime rate of near campus areas, etc.