Davis and Lab Launch #PoliceFreeCampus Podcast

The #PoliceFreeCampus Podcast engages organizers, practitioners, and scholars in discussing the challenges and possibilities for colleges and universities without the police. This public scholarship program builds on the Campus Abolition Research Lab’s ongoing research focus on campus policing (i.e., #PoliceFreeCampus Project) and highlights the work of other scholars and organizers who focus on issues of harm, accountability, criminalization and punishment in higher and postsecondary contexts. In particular, each episode challenges common myths about policing in college and community contexts to include the ways police are both unnecessary and insufficient in addressing root causes of systemic violence and interpersonal harm.