Reforming vs. Abolishing Campus Police Departments within Higher Education
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Questioning the purpose and relevance of police and their role in society has become a prominent topic and pattern in the last decade. Whether campus police departments (CPDs) need to be reformed or abolished to address police violence brings this conversation to the realm of higher education. Originally submitted as a student-issue paper to the fall 2022 course, EDUC-C 565 Introduction to College & University Administration in the Higher Education and Student Affairs Department at Indiana University, this short article briefly explores the question of CPD reform versus abolishment for higher education institutions to consider. The article offers a summary of the argument against the abolishment of CPDs or in other words, the case for maintaining and reforming CPDs; then it offers a summary of the argument for the abolishment of CPDs by examining recent literature about the issue. Then the article concludes by favoring one side of this argument based on the most compelling and comprehensive evidence from the author and proposes possible solutions to the issue of policing on higher education campuses.
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