Cops on Campus

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.

Yalile Suriel is assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota. Grace Watkins is a law student at Yale University. Jude Paul Matias Dizon is assistant professor of higher education leadership at California State University, Stanislaus. John J. Sloan III is professor emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of Criminal Justice Ethics: A Framework for Analysis. Contributors: Jacob Anbinder, Davarian L. Baldwin, Lucien Baskin, Kacie Lucchini Butcher, Andrew Pedro Guerrero, Brendan Hornbostel, Matthew Johnson, Jael Karandi, Erica R. Meiners, Eli Meyerhoff, Vanessa Miller, Nick Mitchell, Kamaria B. Porter, Ryan Flaco Rising, Dylan Rodriguez, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein, Stephen Averill Sherman, and Vineeta Singh

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