Johns Hopkins is facing backlash for plans to develop a private police force. Critics are especially worried about the university’s close partnership with the Baltimore Police Department.
After a two-plus-year pause, Johns Hopkins University is moving ahead with plans to establish a private, armed police force. This week it released a draft of its memorandum of understanding with the Baltimore Police Department, laying out the framework for their division of duties.
The two police departments will share the authority to patrol the “campus area,” which includes any buildings owned, operated, leased or controlled by Hopkins within the three Baltimore campuses: the main Homewood campus, the Peabody Institute campus and the medical campus in East Baltimore. The area also includes any public sidewalks, streets, parking areas and thoroughfares immediately adjacent to the campuses.
According to the MOU, released Monday, the Johns Hopkins Police Department will respond to incidents within those regions and the BPD will lead investigations of more serious crimes, such as rape or murder.
Don’t laugh. The guy that used to run Hopkin’s buses now runs them for Ocean City.
“Opponents worry that the force, which is slated to be made up of about 100 officers, will lead to overpolicing, racial profiling and possibly even police brutality against Hopkins students and employees, as well as members of the surrounding communities.”
It has to be better than the gross underpolicing and reverse racial profiling mandated by yet another sorry excuse for a Baltimore mayor, state’s attorney, police chief and city council. Hopkins students, staff and faculty, some of the nation’s brightest lights in academia and medicine deserve better than they’re getting from the city government.
So is this the result of defunding police now we’re gonna have private “police” vigilante groups similar to the KKK, ANIFTA, white supremists BLACK PANTHERS BLM CODE PINK and many other soros funded subversives???
As a former night student attending evening classes at Homewood Campus, ANY public safety is an improvement.
10:39~~~~~~~~What does that have to do with police departments???