When race triggers a call to campus police
- Written by Brian N. Williams, Visiting Professor of Public Policy, University of Virginia
College campuses can be unwelcoming environments for racial minorities.Mr. Doomits/www.shutterstock.com
On a beautiful spring afternoon on a picturesque college campus, two campus police officers responded to a black professor’s “good afternoon” with a request to see his identification.
The professor paused for a moment but decided...