University police chief brags about circumventing due process in sexual assault cases

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'Due process on college campuses has become passé, and even an impediment to justice — at least according to sexual assault activists. But police officers like Susan Riseling may be giving activists a leg up.

Riseling is the chief of police and associate vice chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and recently told a conference audience that using the records from campus sexual assault hearings could be beneficial to police investigations.

"It's Title IX, not Miranda," Riseling said. "Use what you can."
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K.C. Johnson, who co-wrote the book on the Duke Lacrosse hoax, took Riseling's comment to be an "explicit celebration" of the evisceration of due process.

"The chief offered a rare explicit celebration of what too often is implicit: lack of civil liberties protections is a desired aspect of college inquiries," Johnson wrote. "The 'advantage' of the disciplinary hearing process, it seems, is that accused students have minimal due process protections, and — since sexual assault is, of course, a crime — law enforcement can then use student disciplinary proceedings to obtain information that they could not, under the Constitution, in a normal police investigation."'