The Racist Roots of Campus Policing
Submitted on October 6, 2011
By BENJAMIN WOODS - Counterpunch
...[C]ontemporary campus police are a response to the student rebellions in the late 1960s and early 1970s...Black students all over the country were taking over administration buildings and the anti-war movement was in full swing...Thus, the campus police and the American police force appear to have similar origins and purposes, maintaining “order” and squashing any potential acts of rebellion
