Davis and Porter Publish Essay in the Chronicle’s “The Future of Campus Safety” report

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published “The Future of Campus Safety,” a report that interrogates campus safety concerns and forward-thinking solutions to issues of student mental health, gun violence, and campus sexual assault, among others. The report includes case analyses of colleges that have found success with new approaches as well as expert commentary and recommendations for improving safety on college and university campuses.

In their essay “A Case for Abolishing Campus Police,” CARL Director Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III and Dr. Kamaria B. Porter offer a compelling argument for alternative understandings of campus safety, including institutional repression of student activists and issues of campus sexual violence, and the need for postsecondary institutions to divest from the institution of policing.