Yesterday’s horrific shooting in Virginia reminded me that a friend at the University of Cincinnati had sent me this August 12 story pertaining to the killing of a black motorist on campus. That was terrible and the campus cop responsible deserves punishment to the fullest extent of the law.

Sadly, college and university leaders can’t just say something like that. No, they feel the necessity to ladle lots and lots of money into creating politically correct campus jobs. At Cincinnati, president Santa Ono’s indulgences will cost at least $650,000: two new policing jobs plus a new “vice president of safety and reform.” In addition, UC has hired a media management and crisis communications consultant.

The money comes out of the university’s rainy day fund.

A UC spokesman downplays this spending, saying that it’s less than one tenth of one percent of the budget and won’t lead to a tuition increase. But that evades the real issue: is there any reason to think that creating new jobs will eliminate the possibility of any future violent incident? If these PC positions had existed before the shooting, would the officer have reacted differently?

Bad things sometimes happen. Instead of just acknowledging that, academic leftists use them as excuses to squander money on bureaucrats who will pocket large salaries while trying to look busy.