Not sure I get the entire gist of your post & it is hard to tell if WSU’s police department is accredited. It looks like in 2023, the WSU police department received a grant to help with accreditation. Some larger universities have accredited police departments, although, I’m not sure if it’s mainly in urban areas. The university (which includes an academic medical center), I worked for, was accredited and their jurisdiction extended at least to adjoining city’s streets and they had authority to read license plates. They were available 24 hrs every day and their dispatch was 24 hrs every day. I’m sure they worked in conjunction with the city’s police department, but I also know federal law enforcement agencies worked directly with them. I know the house was off-campus.
What does Washington State University's police force being accredited or not have to do with this? I'm honestly puzzled?
I'm saying that even though Jenkins had only worked at WSU for a few months and was "only" the chief of university police...before that he had been Chief of the city of Pullman's police force for 12 years and he and Fry had worked together in an official capacity many times before. Fry saw him as a coequal and wouldn't have told Pullman city police and not told Jenkins as well. Before anyone (whether it be Moscow police or Pullman police) started contacting the dept heads in the grad school and criminal justice and other university authorities, Fry would have told Jenkins as well.
Irregardless of when Moscow Police Chief Fry told WSU police chief Jenkins---Payne didn't get the tip from the FBI until evening on Monday, Dec 19. He didn't get all the details from the FBI about the tip until the next day. Washington State's final exams had finished the previous Friday. So, not the easiest time of year and time of day to contact higher ups there.
We also, as far as I know, do not know what time of day the termination email to BK was sent on the 19th.
In order for WSU's termination email to BK on the 19th to have been caused by Moscow being given the FBI "tip" the evening of the 19th, a lot of things would have had to all go right/smoothly/rapidly:
1. Late in the evening on the 19th, Moscow officer Payne gets the FBI tip. He tells Chief Fry.
2. Moscow police contact Pullman city police right away.
so far, easy
3. Pullman city police (or Moscow police) immediately, on a Monday night after winter break has official started, are able to contact higher ups at Washington State Univ---like president level.
Ok, not too hard.
4. High up members of the graduate school as well as the specific heads of the criminal justice grad program who have all the files and paperwork pertaining to BK's record (the student complaints about him, the professors' concerns, the improvement plan, documentation of his failure to comply and improve by the guidelines given to him) are able to be contacted by the higher ups at the university. It wouldn't be just contacting one person--at a minimum, the head of graduate school, and the head of criminal justice program and the other professor involved in his improvement plan would all have had to be contacted.
5. Washington State's legal team would have to be contacted and brought into it.
6. WSU's graduate program would have to hurry up and write a termination letter, get it signed off on by the legal team and higher ups, and then make any changes and send it before midnight.
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6. WSU's graduate program would have had to had a termination letter already written up/approved/and ready to go before they were contacted by LE or college administration that day. It still would have likely to have had a second look given to it by the school's legal team in light of what they had just been told before it was given the green light.
To me, IMHO, it seems nearly impossible to believe that all those things managed to happen (the contacting of all those people at WSU, who were at all levels of hierarchy, getting them to coordinate with their team and with each other, have this letter either be written on the fly or editing a preexisting one and have it approved by legal and high up WSU admin, and get it sent off before midnight) in the space of what....6 hours maximum (Payne said he was notified in the evening). After school is officially out and professors are grading finals.
Per the PCA, we know BK left Pullman for the drive home around Dec 13 and was in PA by the 16th. The purported termination letter claims they met with BK on the 19th and told him he was terminated.....which, if that is true, they would have had to do via Zoom. Very very late that evening if the termination was a direct result of Moscow being told it was BK's DNA on the sheath.
MOO, I find it highly unlikely that all those things could have occurred in that short of a time period given the time of year and the time of day, no matter when Jenkins was told.
