CSU hires more police officers despite lack of funding
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California State University have begun hiring more police officers, with Sonoma State hiring two new officers, one full-time and other part-time. The salary of the full-time officer is $6,686 per month, coming to over $80,000 a year.
The part-time officer will be receiving at a minimum at $3,576 per month, which is over $40,000 a year.
The CSU has allocated $1.9 million to hire more police officers as of July 2020, yet many faculty members have been laid off and classes have been cut due to a "budget crisis".
Residential advisors have been the first responders to almost every situation on campus, not the campus police.
R.A. budget was cut drastically, leaving more than half the former RAs without jobs this past year.
But, instead of hiring back more RAs with this newfound budget of almost $2 million, the CSUs have decided to spend it hiring more police officers.
The money could be spent on restoring the jobs of former faculty and students, or on restoring the funding that was recently cut in half for a lot of programs at SSU.
