NY governor suggests college sexual assault victims actually call the police

Article here. Well, how about that! What a novel idea! If you think you've been the victim of a crime, call the police. Wow. Who'da thunk it? Excerpt:

'New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has advised female college students who claim to have been sexually assaulted to contact real, actual police.

“If someone gets shot on a campus, that is not an academic matter,” Cuomo said on Wednesday, according to The Syracuse Post-Standard. “You would call the police.”

The Democratic governor said rapes and other sexual assaults are similarly serious criminal matters and should be handled by police.

“It is not a campus matter,” Cuomo explained. Students “have a right to go to law enforcement.”

The governor observed that campus police officers and university bureaucrats are very poorly equipped to handle rape and sexual assault complaints compared to real police with a full complement of arrest and investigative powers.

Cuomo made his profoundly matter-of-fact and commonsensical statements in Albany on Wednesday during a cabinet meeting. He was promoting an “Enough is Enough” campaign, which seeks to reduce incidences of rape and sexual assault on college campuses.'

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