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

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Since the racial justice uprisings in 2020, campus police departments have been at the center of movements to defund and abolish policing. This session problematizes assumptions that normalize campus police presence in higher education through a multidisciplinary panel of scholars featured in the newly published volume Cops on Campus: Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence. Through considering issues such as racism, sexual assault, statutory protections, activism, and gentrification, this session dismantles what we think campus police do and considers the possibilities of police-free campuses. The symposium presents original, empirical research as well as reflections from activists engaged in the Cops Off Campus movements. Through interaction between the presenters and audience, we will collectively reimagine safety in higher education.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education / Division J - Section 6: Society, Culture, and Change

Chair

• Jude Paul Matias Dizon, California State University - East Bay

Papers

• A National Survey and Critical Analysis of University Police Statutes - Vanessa Miller, Indiana University

• Campus Policing as Extraterritorial Expansion - Davarian Baldwin, Trinity College

• Racialized Barriers to Reporting Sexual Assault Among Black Women - Kamaria B. Porter, Northwestern University

• A Reflection on Faculty Abolitionist Praxis - Dylan Rodriguez, University of California - Riverside

• Organizing to Abolish Campus Police and Growing a Movement - Christopher R. Rogers, Haverford College

Discussant

• Jude Paul Matias Dizon, California State University - East Bay