Full Description
Interrogates the relationship between higher education and the carceral state
Over the last five years, headlines have thrust campus police departments from relative obscurity into the national spotlight. Campus constituents have called for campus police, as a tangible manifestation of the War on Crime within the sphere of higher education, to be disarmed, defunded, and abolished. Using a multidisciplinary approach that draws from the fields of history, American studies, ethnic studies, criminology, higher education, and sociology, Cops on Campus provides critical perspectives on the organization and social consequences of campus policing. Chapters uncover details of the structure and culture of university police—some of the best-funded and largest private police forces in the nation—and examine the institution in relation to racialized and gendered violence, racial profiling, and the surveillance of marginalized communities on and off campus. The volume also features interviews with students, staff, and faculty activists to showcase efforts to redefine and reimagine campus safety and explore alternatives for the future.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / A Fresh Perspective on Campus Policing in America
Yalile Suriel, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, John J. Sloan III
Part I Critical Perspectives on the Organization, Culture, and Tactics of Campus Police
1 The End of In Loco Parentis and Institutionalization of Campus Policing
John J. Sloan III
2 A Critical Legal Analysis of Campus Police Authority
Vanessa Miller
3 "Just Protecting the University Property" / Campus Policing as Extraterritorial Expansion
Davarian L. Baldwin
4 Pushing Back on Campus Police Unions / Histories and Strategies
Lucien Baskin, Erica R. Meiners, and Grace Watkins
Part II Challenging the Narrative of Campus Policing
5 Locking the Gates / Yale University and the Police Power in the Postindustrial City, 1959-1976
Jacob Anbinder
6 Anti-Sexual Assault Activism and the Legitimacy of Campus Police in Philadelphia
Matt Johnson
7 The War on Drugs Meets Campus Police
Yalile Suriel
8 "The King of Sting" / A History of the UCLA Police Department
Andrew Pedro Guerrero
Part III Current Issues in Campus Policing
9 "You're Not Even in the United States. You're in Georgia Tech" /Campus Police, Urban Governance, and the Creation of the Client-Student
Stephen Averill Sherman
10 Uncovering the Racial Power of Campus Police
Jude Paul Matias Dizon
11 Campus Police and Racialized Barriers to Reporting Sexual Assault for Black Women
Kamaria B. Porter
12 Ed Tech Is Surveillance Tech / Pedagogies of Surveillance in Physical and Digital Campuses
Vineeta Singh
Part IV Transforming Campus Safety
13 Campus Policing and the Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Students
An Interview with Ryan Flaco Rising
14 How Student Activists Are Working to Defund, Disarm, and Abolish the Campus Police
An Interview with Jael Kerandi
15 Rethinking the Archives on Campus Policing
An Interview with Kacie Lucchini Butcher
16 An Interview with Cops Off Campus Research Collective
Eli Meyerhoff, Nick Mitchell, Brendan Hornbostel, and Zach SchwartzWeinstein
17 "A Moment of Profound Counterinsurgency"
A Reflection on Faculty Abolitionist Praxis with Dylan Rodríguez
Afterword
Yalile Suriel, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, and John J. Sloan III
List of Contributors
Index
