UCLA Police Chief John Thomas, who was blasted for badly mismanaging campus security and failed to handle a mob attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment, has left the university.

A review found UCLA failed to protect students because a “highly chaotic” decision-making process, lack of communication among campus leaders and police; and other shortfalls

The police chief for the University of California at Los Angeles, who was criticized for the handling of a violent mob attack in May on pro-Palestinian activists encamped at UCLA, has left the campus police department.

UCLA police chief John Thomas is out one month after a scathing audit criticized how the university handled protests last spring. Why now: A University of California investigation released last month found administrators and police responded in a chaotic way to violence at an on-campus encampment last spring.

John Thomas, UCLA’s former chief of police, has left from the school’s police department in the wake of violence on the campus at a pro-Palestinian encampment in early May. In a post on X Wednesday night,