Debate over private police force plan for Johns Hopkins

Would an armed Johns Hopkins University police force make students, affiliates and the community safer? Or over-police the area, making some - particularly people of color - less safe? We delved into the protests, policy and politics around the proposal.

Johns Hopkins police plan protested as bill takes effect

Hopkins nurses call the concept “terrifying,” and a Hopkins doctor calls the ICE contracts “a desecration of what our profession should be.”

Protest at Johns Hopkins against private police force ends in blowtorches, arrests and tears

Protesters had locked themselves into the administration building. Today police removed them forcibly.

Citing school officials’ campaign contributions to Pugh, Hopkins students protest private police plan

Occupying a campus building for nearly a week, protesters say plan is tainted by its ties to a “pay-to-play” mayor.

Proposed campus area police maps are posted by Hopkins

Eastside politicians undergo a grilling on Johns Hopkins police bill

McCray and Lierman say amendments will improve what critics call a vague measure being rushed to passage. Smith says “no.”

The boundaries for a Johns Hopkins police force, as outlined in the bill

The proposed zones are about twice the area covered under the Clery Act. But they would require “a majority of support” for JHU to patrol, according to amended bill. UPDATED.

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On a single day, Johns Hopkins officials gave Baltimore’s mayor $16,000

Generous campaign contributions are another part of the university’s push for police powers it says are needed to safeguard its campuses.

Pietila “wrong” on Hopkins police force, writer argues

A JHU graduate student responds to an op-ed by the author of “Not in My Neighborhood.”

Despite its troubled history with East Baltimore, Hopkins needs a police force

The hospital must provide safety to its patients and students in order to thrive, says the author of a book about the institution’s often strained relations with the community. [OP-ED]

Johns Hopkins police bill sprinkles state funds across an array of community programs

Taxpayers are being asked to bankroll programs that Hopkins says will address the root causes of Baltimore’s crime.

Johns Hopkins plan for a private police force splits communities and the student body

Many are skeptical of the university’s law-and-order solution to crime. Year-by-year data on assaults and robberies outside and within campus property.