Andrew Matthews, former officer with the Yale PD and current lawyer for Yale’s police union, said he doesn’t think there was an attempt to fearmonger or scare people when police distributed their pamphlets.
Bullshit. That’s exactly what it was. They know how impressionable freshmen are, especially those from out of state or country. They know the authority they have and represent, and because of this a lot of people will simply take them at their word. They also know the age old strategy of 1) scare people with an outside threat, then 2) present yourself as the only solution to said threat.