Taxpayers shouldn’t pay for NYPD to ‘babysit unruly’ Columbia students, pols fume as cops asked to stay on guard

Taxpayers shouldn’t pay for NYPD to ‘babysit unruly’ Columbia students, pols fume as cops asked to stay on guard

New York Post·2024-05-02 08:01

Columbia University should open its checkbook if school leaders want the NYPD to stay on the Ivy League campus through May 17 and “babysit unruly students,” a bipartisan group of city pols fumed Wednesday.

The elite institution’s beleaguered president, Minouche Shafik, drew the ire of the City Council’s Common Sense Caucus with her request that cops stay on campus until two days after commencement to ensure that another anti-Israel encampment doesn’t spring back up.

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