Linda, I hate to break the news to you but your career as chancellor is over and there is nothing you can do to change what is now an inevitable outcome.  
I’m sure it pains you to honestly face the facts about your future (and when i use the word “pain”, i mean psychological and emotional pain, not physical pain like your students experienced when they were pepper-sprayed in the face and mouth), but the sooner you resign, the sooner you will be out of the news cycle, and the sooner you can begin building your new career.

So just look on the bright side and stay positive, because there is always a job out there waiting in the corporate/government realm for a brutal fascist like yourself!

Sincerely,

Brian Walls

They hit you with pepper spray, you hit them with homemade molitov cocktails or your own pepper spray, they club you? you take a bat to their heads.
the police are NOT on your side…they are on the side of the local government. When the shit hits the fan in 6- 8 months…AND IT WILL!!! it will be much worse than this, Cops will use force daily, troops will be put into cities where this is ongoing and there will be marshall law.

and before any of you start flaming me and say i’m crazy…many people called what is happening today to the LETTER back in 2005 / 2006 and they too were told they were crazy.

hell our parents in the 70′s told the government this was going to happen…oil and greed has brought us here…only a world war or a revolution is going to change it.

Lt. Pike’s salary over the last 3 years was in the range of $110,ooo/year. Given that, I would expect him to have received training more than adequate to enable him to handle the arrest of 12 seated, non-violent protesters without escalating the level of violence in the situation (which appeared to have been roughly nil outside of the actions of police). 

It appears that Lt. Pike was either incapable or unwilling to perform his duties in the professional manner instilled by the training he has received. We, the tax payers, pay his salary and it’s quite likely that we pay for his training in the use of pepper spray as a deterrent to violence. In the spirit of Nathan Brown, as one of his employers, I call for his resignation on the grounds that he is incapable or unwilling to perform the duties for which he is paid.

From a purely practical standpoint, and keeping in mind that we are in what Chancellor Katehi so accurately referred to as “these very tight economic times “, I see no monetary or practical gain to be achieved by putting him on paid administrative leave or sending him to sensitivity training. Such punishments, so popular and commonly-applied as correctives to oopsy!-shootings, were intended to not only punish and re-educate the officer who had committed a crime, but to send a clear message to other officers that the offending behavior is not acceptable professional practice.

It has become clear over the last few months that these punishments are not achieving the objectives they were set to meet. Police officers who have engaged in police brutality have been punished with paid leaves and sensitivity training, but those corrective actions have obviously had no effect whatsoever on the behavior of police officers as a whole. Brutality and the use of disproportionate force is on the rise and we can view ample evidence of the fact on YouTube. 

I’ll trot out this tired canard, but only because it’s appropriate: The definition of insanity is repeating the same process but expecting a different outcome. In these very tight economic times (thanks, Chancellor!), we just can’t afford to indulge in liberal measures that we once could have sustained. If we are to expect police officers to adhere to the laws that govern their use of force, we must respond with measures that actually make an impact on their behavior. Because clearly the current punishments for illegal behavior are not making an impact.

So, once again, I call for Lt. Pike’s immediate resignation on the grounds of ineptitude or willful disobedience. 

William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

/end sarcasm

The Police are tasked above all else to uphold the law, Correct?
And as any Police officer will tell you, ignorance of the law isn’t an excuse.
I guess you just don’t know the law in this circumstance, so I will inform you.
Using pepper spray against non-violent protesters has been considered “excessive force” on the federal level in the US since January 11, 2002.  Here is the case law if you wish to read it for yourself:  http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1332957.html

So your take on this matter is not merely poorly received, but blatantly wrong.  : /

Of course they are to blame. If there’s one thing the second world war taught us, it’s that you are responsible for your own actions, you can’t blame the orders you were given.

Second of all, I am very tired of hearing about the “one bad apple” lie. If that was the case, the other, law abiding, decent officers should have stopped the one with the pepper spray. Or better yet, arrested him. But no, they encircle him, and others like him, in a blue wall of silence. Reform your police forces, do it know!

UC professors may actually be unionized.

I wonder what percentage of professors is full-time/tenured and if the part-timers would be in a union. It seems like professors who retire aren’t replaced. They just call the casual, unbenefited professors and ask them if they want to pick up classes. Being a university professor has gotten much, much closer to working at WalMart than it was a decade or two ago.

That said – the police union is obviously doing something right if they have managed to pay people $100,000+ (not including benefits!) to be thugs… and pay in academia for the people doing actual academics (i.e. professors, researchers, grad students etc. – not administrators, who are quite well paid) is ridiculously bad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/world/middleeast/facing-calls-to-give-up-power-egypts-military-battles-crowds.html

At least the arabs and polaks know how to protest.

…why are the kids “protesting” on their own campus?

Tuition hikes. Staff cutbacks. University executive pay raises. UC used to be a social service. Now it’s a business and run like every other business that’s abusing its customers.

What does the pay rate of the police officer have to do with anything? The link doesn’t say anything about how long the assistant professor or police officer have been working. It could be 20 years versus 2 years. Also the assistant professor may in an endowed position which is not uncommon. 

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=8422922