Transforming Justice

"In Wisconsin, public school staff called the police on students at twice the national rate from 2017 to 2018. ... Black and disabled students were actually referred to police at nearly twice the rate of the overall student population ...Native American children in Wisconsin were referred to police more often than in any other state. For indigenous children, the rate was more than three times higher than that of white students."

Wisconsin leads nation in referring students to law enforcement - Wisconsin Examiner A new report finds that Wisconsin schools refer students to law enforcement more than most other states nationally.

Excellent piece by Dylan Rodriguez on University tactics to expand policing in the name of reforms.

"The UCR Task Force’s recommendations are attempting to solve a “legitimacy problem” for the UCPD in the context of unprecedented challenges to its institutional power and reach. “The legitimacy problem for police,” as Correia and Wall write, “is about the legitimacy to use violence. Community policing is not about making police friendlier, but about making police violence more acceptable."

"The history of modern police reforms indicates that such proposals expand the bureaucratic, ideological, cultural, and institutional capacity of policing and police violence in their various forms, from surveillance and harassment to crowd control, involuntary hospitalization, and bodily (sexual) assault. Regrettably, the Task Force Report proposes a reorganization and redistribution of police power that rests on an “[integration of] campus safety activities, including prevention and response, more deliberately with existing campus-based programs that address issues such as mental health, domestic violence, sexual harassment, and drug or alcohol abuse.”

A public response to the UCR Chancellor’s invitation to join the Campus Safety Workgroup By Dylan Rodríguez, Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside Dear Chancellor Wilcox and UCR Administrative Collea...