Campus Police

A Case for Abolishing Campus Police

A Case for Abolishing Campus Police

Calls to abolish police from college campuses have grown considerably louder over the years. In particular, following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, colleges were forced to seriously consider their role in legitimizing the institution of policing. For decades, however, concerned students, faculty, staff, and community members have sounded the alarm that, for marginalized people, campus policing is as detrimental as municipal policing.

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An Inconvenient Truth: More Police on Campus Won’t Prevent Gun Violence

An Inconvenient Truth: More Police on Campus Won’t Prevent Gun Violence

Temple University senior Samuel Collington was shot and killed last November during an attempted robbery and carjacking near his North Philadelphia apartment. Collington’s death by gun violence followed the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old Philadelphian near Temple’s campus two weeks earlier.

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