• Rich Barlow

    Senior Writer

    Photo: Headshot of Rich Barlow, an older white man with dark grey hair and wearing a grey shirt and grey-blue blazer, smiles and poses in front of a dark grey backdrop.

    Rich Barlow is a senior writer at BU Today and Bostonia magazine. Perhaps the only native of Trenton, N.J., who will volunteer his birthplace without police interrogation, he graduated from Dartmouth College, spent 20 years as a small-town newspaper reporter, and is a former Boston Globe religion columnist, book reviewer, and occasional op-ed contributor. Profile

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There are 5 comments on BUPD Up for National Accreditation

  1. What Boston University Police Department & Boston Police are doing to trace the culprit and find the cause of death of K.Seshadri Rao MBA graduate of Boston University who was shot dead on 19th April 2012. Though 16 months have passed none of the culprits have been apprehended or arrested. No information no updates are advised either to parents or the embassy or interpol. Pitiable condition. Let good sense prevail to unravel the truth.

  2. Does it really make sense to have a college department practice best policing practices on a national level? We don’t really experience the crime of major cities and the BPD is more than oppressive enough.

  3. Who cares? Is national accreditation supposed to diminish the displeasure most BU students have toward the BUPD? Don’t get me wrong, they have some great personnel, by why the need for credentials? Seems like an image-booster to me.

  4. Because it is a police force on a large metropolitan campus (post Boston Marathon bombing) it makes sense; they did offer and give assistance during that time. Let’s also consider that another university police officer Sean Collier was killed in the line of duty.

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