



“How UCPD moves affects all of us in negative ways. I can never walk around my neighborhood without being hounded by UCPD. I can’t count how many times I’ve gone grocery shopping while being followed by UCPD.” - a young HP resident with @GKMC18



2011: According to the University’s community safety website, the “budget for police protection has increased by more than $1 MILLION in the past 3 years” despite crime rates in 2010 & 2011 in HP-Kenwood being some of the lowest in decades



this always leads to rampant racial profiling! This is no surprise, as William Bratton also oversaw stop-and-frisk as commissioner of NYPD. The UCPD's field report data reflects this philosophy, as tons of black neighbors are questioned for 'loitering,' i.e. existing in public.


The Chicago Defender, iconic Black newspaper of the south side, harshly criticized that support. In response, UChi President Robert Hutchins said that the University "must endeavor to stabilize its neighborhood as an area in which its students and faculty will be content to live”
To the University then, much like today, it doesn't matter if their actions uphold white supremacy, the important part is that the area is palatable to a largely white student body and wealthy donors & parents.


If policy-based disdain for black lives doesn’t spook y’all, ask what will?



This restriction to full-time staff means it leaves out the many Black and Brown contracted workers we see in the dining halls, who the University failed to pay spring quarter.
Night 7 fact: as Woodlawn transitioned from 86% white to 86% black in the 1950s, the University began to engage in an aggressive, racially biased form of “proactive” policing largely concentrated along the Southern edge of campus
To this day, 61st street acts as a dividing line between the University and Woodlawn neighborhood, a reminder of the connection between the University’s policing strategies and it’s attempts at neighborhood control


-155/166 people stooped &questioned on foot were Black
-Black made up 59% of jurisdiction, but 93% of field interviews
-75% of drivers stopped were Black, an additional 10% were Asian or Latino, when only 64% of drivers in the neighborhood were minorities
no wonder they’d never published their facts before, and still refused to follow FOIA (freedom of informant ion act)
no wonder they’d never published their facts before, and still refused to follow FOIA (freedom of informant ion act)
