Police Free Campus Podcast

About Police Free Campus Podcast

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.

Publisher

Campus Abolition Research Lab

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

12 May 2023

Latest episode

15 May 2023

Latest episodes

7 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 May 2023

   Organizing for Police-Free Campuses (S1E7)

   Christopher Rogers, Alejo Stark, and Jake Nussbaum discuss campus organizing, the #CopsOffCampus Coalition, and imagining a future in which strong communities render policing obsolete.

2. 

   15 May 2023

   What About Campus Sexual Violence (S1E6)

   What About Campus Sexual Violence (S1E6) by Campus Abolition Research Lab

3. 

   15 May 2023

   Policing As A Settler-Colonial Technology (S1E3)

   Dr. Leigh Patel and Dr. Davarian Baldwin discuss the historical and contemporary relationships between campus policing, university expansion and settler-colonialism.

4. 

   15 May 2023

   But Aren't Campus Police Different (S1E4)

   Scholars and former student affairs professionals 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.

5. 

   15 May 2023

   Campus Safety for Whom? (S1E5)

   Higher Education researchers 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.

6. 

   15 May 2023

   Campus Police: An Abridged History (S1E2)

   Historians 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.

7. 

   12 May 2023

   What Do You Mean Police-Free Campuses? (S1E1)

   Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III discusses abolition as a responsive solution to the systemic failures of campus policing in U.S. higher education and its social contexts.

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