Police involvement not all that’s needed to fix campus sexual assault problems

Published July 15, 2016 4:49pm ET



For all the problems with colleges and universities’ current handling of sexual assault, the push by due process to have accusations turned over to the police is no panacea.

Yes, cops and prosecutors have the tools and training to actually investigate these situations free from most of the biases that have infested campus pseudo-courts. But handing these cases over to police might not be the best thing, if we don’t also fix the definitions of what is considered “sexual assault.”

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