What Type of Relationship Do College Campus Police Forces Have with the Surrounding Low-income Neighborhoods?

Download or read book What Type of Relationship Do College Campus Police Forces Have with the Surrounding Low-income Neighborhoods? written by Kennedy Marie Jackmon and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to recent events such as the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, law enforcement all over the country is reassessing their limits of force. This moment offers a chance to educate one another on campus police departments and how they operate, a look at a revision of policies, embracing training opportunities, and their use-of-force. This study consisted of 20 people who were either a student of Drexel or Temple University, a resident of either institution, or a police officer from either institution. The ages ranged from 19 to 64 years old. Everyone filled out a demographics survey and a Zoom interview. The DU PD and the TU PD do have numerous issues to work on in both departments to ensure positive opinions for both departments. It is too early in the research stage to determine whether the relationships are strictly positive or negative, however, there is enough opinions and concerns from the students and residents to recognize what needs to be fixed and how to fix it. For example, language was a factor in fixing how the residents and areas are perceived in West Philadelphia by the Drexel police. The departments are not perfect, as all police departments are not, but they are doing what they can with what they can. This could be the starting point to creating community policing that could be implemented in neighborhoods outside of college campuses. They could lay the blueprint that changes the face of policing because it is implemented on a small scale. The findings to this could also bring insight to actual police forces in lower income neighborhoods.