Over the last five years, headlines have thrust campus police departments from relative obscurity into the national spotlight. Campus constituents have called for campus police, as a tangible manifestation of the War on Crime within the sphere of higher education, to be disarmed, defunded, and abolished. Using a multidisciplinary approach that draws from the fields of history, American studies, ethnic studies, criminology, higher education, and sociology, Cops on Campus provides critical perspectives on the organization and social consequences of campus policing. Chapters uncover details of the structure and culture of university police?some of the best-funded and largest private police forces in the nation?and examine the institution in relation to racialized and gendered violence, racial profiling, and the surveillance of marginalized communities on and off campus. The volume also features interviews with students, staff, and faculty activists to showcase efforts to redefine and reimagine campus safety and explore alternatives for the future.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / A Fresh Perspective on Campus Policing in America Yalile Suriel, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, John J. Sloan IIIPart I Critical Perspectives on the Organization, Culture, and Tactics of Campus Police1 The End of In Loco Parentis and Institutionalization of Campus Policing John J. Sloan III2 A Critical Legal Analysis of Campus Police Authority Vanessa Miller 3 "Just Protecting the University Property" / Campus Policing as Extraterritorial Expansion Davarian L. Baldwin4 Pushing Back on Campus Police Unions / Histories and Strategies Lucien Baskin, Erica R. Meiners, and Grace WatkinsPart II Challenging the Narrative of Campus Policing5 Locking the Gates / Yale University and the Police Power in the Postindustrial City, 1959?1976 Jacob Anbinder6 Anti?Sexual Assault Activism and the Legitimacy of Campus Police in Philadelphia Matt Johnson7 The War on Drugs Meets Campus PoliceYalile Suriel 8 "The King of Sting" / A History of the UCLA Police DepartmentAndrew Pedro GuerreroPart III Current Issues in Campus Policing9 "You're Not Even in the United States. You're in Georgia Tech" /Campus Police, Urban Governance, and the Creation of the Client-StudentStephen Averill Sherman 10 Uncovering the Racial Power of Campus Police Jude Paul Matias Dizon 11 Campus Police and Racialized Barriers to Reporting Sexual Assault for Black WomenKamaria B. Porter 12 Ed Tech Is Surveillance Tech / Pedagogies of Surveillance in Physical and Digital CampusesVineeta Singh Part IV Transforming Campus Safety 13 Campus Policing and the Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated StudentsAn Interview with Ryan Flaco Rising 14 How Student Activists Are Working to Defund, Disarm, and Abolish the Campus PoliceAn Interview with Jael Kerandi15 Rethinking the Archives on Campus PolicingAn Interview with Kacie Lucchini Butcher16 An Interview with Cops Off Campus Research CollectiveEli Meyerhoff, Nick Mitchell, Brendan Hornbostel, and Zach SchwartzWeinstein17 "A Moment of Profound Counterinsurgency" A Reflection on Faculty Abolitionist Praxis with Dylan Rodríguez AfterwordYalile Suriel, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, and John J. Sloan IIIList of ContributorsIndex