Thanks to these community policing efforts, HUPD believes the days of a tense relationship between students and police officers are long gone.
"You know the myths about Harvard students, the silver spoons, that they're brats," Riley says. "The officers know that this isn't the case. Everybody has a frailty, the officers see the frailties in students, and sometimes students see frailties in officers, and out of that has developed a mutual respect."
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