UCF campus cops are on patrol in Parramore

Hey Parramore, there’s a new sheriff in town! It’s the University of Central Florida Police Department. UCF cops are already on patrol at UCF’s downtown campus that is scheduled to open for classes this fall in the Parramore neighborhood. Campus cops have real badges and real guns. They can arrest anyone – not just college kids -- and take them to the 33 rd Street jail. Or they can shoot to kill. The presence of this new police force compounds the concerns of Parramore residents who feel their community is already over-policed. UCF patrol car on Livingston St. at UCF Downtown Four summers ago, a University of Cincinnati police officer in a marked patrol car driving on a city street near the campus stopped motorist Samuel DuBose , a black man. During that encounter, the UC officer shot and killed DuBose, who was unarmed. That fatal shooting contributed to bad blood between the black community and police. After two trials that ended with a hung jury, charge...