Dan from Golden writes, “What’s driving you crazy? Hey Jayson – oftentimes, I see Red Rocks College Police set up a speed trap on the 6th Avenue West frontage road. Isn’t that out of their jurisdiction since they are campus police?”
“It’s a common misconception that I’ve dealt with for many years, but I completely understand,” Chief of Police for Red Rocks Community College Campus Police Department Anthony Schaller said.
The Red Rocks Community College (RRCC) Lakewood campus sits along the W. 6th Ave. Frontage Road between Indiana Street and Union Boulevard centered at Arbutus Drive. That is the major street that runs directly through campus and the one that campus police patrol and enforce traffic laws on. School property runs for about 1/3 of a mile along the W. 6th Ave. Frontage Road. That is where people off campus might see a campus police officer looking for speeding drivers, but Chief Schaller tells me they aren’t running radar for traffic on 6th Ave Frontage Road…