A Reflection on Faculty Abolitionist Praxis

• In Event: Division J Vice Presidential Session: Dismantling Injustice in Campus Policing and Reimagining Safety

Abstract

This presentation is based on an interview with a faculty member and long-time abolition activist. The interview is a chapter in the aforementioned new volume Cops on Campus. The interviewee is a founding member of the abolitionist organization Critical Resistance and has written extensively about policing as a tool of racist, anti-Black, and colonial state violence. The interviewee has been an active member of the Cops Off Campus movement at their institution of employment. In this presentation, the interviewee will share insights on how the intertwining of universities and campus police results in state-sanctioned violence perpetrated against historically subjugated and excluded populations in higher education.

Author

• Dylan Rodriguez, University of California - Riverside