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5 issues that could affect the future of campus police

  • Written by John J Sloan, III, Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice and Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
imageCampus police have been accused of biased practices. John Paraskevas/Newsday RM vis Getty Images

Since the May 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, much of the attention on police reform has been directed at municipal police departments. But there has also been a noticeable uptick in protests against the...

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