OREM, Utah — Two months after the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Utah Valley University says it wants more police. The school's desire for more officers comes as the Utah legislature is asking the state’s universities to cut their budgets.

“Campus police are what are often referred to as cops-plus, because they do all the things that municipal police do, and then there's a host of other things that they're involved with," said Michael Rein, who served as a deputy police chief at Rutgers University.

Rein now works as a campus security consultant for the security firm COSCURE Enterprise Risk Solutions.

"The Bureau of Justice Statistics did some research back in 2021 that was only recently made available. But in their research, they found that for public institutions, they

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