Brown University has been brushing off security issues for years — ignoring warnings from students, staff and even police, The Post has learned.
The revelation comes after two students were killed and nine others hurt in a mass shooting at the Ivy League school that has seen critics slam the institution for prioritizing image over safety.
The engineering building where the shooting took place didn’t have a swipe-card mechanism and could be accessed by anyone through the public-facing coffee shop, students said. It didn’t have a security officer posted at the front either, like some other buildings do, school officials have said.
On the day of the shooting, there was a 17-minute gap between the 911 call and the university sending out its first alert to students, according to a timeline published in the student newspaper…