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...Howland report, an independent "management audit" of the University police released to the department last Thursday, supports the contention that critics of the Gorski reforms have maintained all along--that there is an inherent difference between the way a city government runs its police force, and how a university should police itself...
...eight-chapter report, drafted by John T. Howland, executive director of the Institute of Public Service Management in Babson Park, begins by agreeing with Gorski's litany of tough law-enforcement goals. But then it adds, "A campus police department must be equally concerned with the delivery of a variety of services unique to a university setting...
Those "services" include a necessity to deal with students not as potential lawbreakers but as members of a diverse community that traditionally values dissent, the report says. Consequently, the University police must choose between the "authoritarian" Gorski approach and a policy of "selective enforcement," it adds...
...Wyatt, vice president for administration, said yesterday he believes the report does not represent a break with the Gorski model of an efficient, modern force...
Stressing the Howland study's emphasis on the scientific crime prevention methods that Gorski championed, Wyatt said Howland only offered a different view of methods of crime prevention...