The #PoliceFreeCampus Podcast engages organizers, practitioners, and scholars in discussing the challenges and possibilities for colleges and universities without the police. The podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III.
Episode 1
What Do You Mean “Police-Free” Campuses?
Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III introduces the podcast and discusses abolition as a responsive solution to the systemic failures of campus policing in U.S. colleges and universities.
Episode 2
Campus Police: An Abridged History
Dr. Eddie R. Cole and David Helps discuss the origins and evolution of campus policing and its historical implications for racialized surveillance, political suppression, and criminalization in colleges and universities.
Episode 3
Policing as a Settler-Colonial Technology
Dr. Leigh Patel and Dr. Davarian Baldwin discuss the historical and contemporary relationships between campus policing, university expansion and settler-colonialism.
Episode 4
But Aren’t Campus Police Different?
Brenda Anderson Wadley and Dr. Jude Dizon discuss misconceptions about campus police, the university as an apparatus of punishment, and higher education’s role in legitimizing the carceral state.
Episode 5
Campus Safety For Whom?
Taylor Lewis and Jarell Skinner-Roy discuss the limitations and consequences of policing as a campus safety strategy and why institutions need non-law enforcement alternatives.
Episode 6
What About Campus Sexual Violence?
Dr. Jessica C. Harris and Dr. Kamaria Porter discuss the complexities of harm and accountability in incidents of campus sexual violence and how survivor-centered care must include alternatives to policing and the criminal legal system
Episode 7
Organizing for Police-Free Campuses
Christopher Rogers, Alejo Stark, and Jake Nussbaum discuss campus organizing, the Cops Off Campus Coalition, and imagining a future in which strong communities render policing obsolete.
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Funding for the Police-Free Campus Podcast has been provided by the National Center of Institutional Diversity
and the Anti-Racism Research and Community Impact Fellowship at the University of Michigan.