Racialized Policing and the Campus Borderlands: A Longitudinal Descriptive Analysis of Interactions with Campus Police

• In Event: Policing and Carcerality in Higher Education

Abstract

The extent to which Black (and other racially minoritized) people and communities have been disproportionately criminalized by municipal police and school resource officers has been well established in social science and education research. However, university police department data have rarely been analyzed for similar disparities in their interactions with minoritized people affiliated or living in proximity to a college or university campus. Analyzing publicly available data from the University of Chicago Police Department, this longitudinal study describes field interaction and traffic stop data across racial differences. When understood in the contexts of racial and carceral geographies, our findings demonstrate campus policing serves as an institutional apparatus of anti-Blackness through racialized border patrolling practices disproportionately levied against unaffiliated Black Chicago residents.

Authors

• Charles H.F. Davis, University of Michigan

• Nia Hall, University of Michigan

• Jarell Skinner-Roy, University of Michigan

• Cassandra S. Arroyo, University of Michigan