Jhpd Stats

Stats - JHU SGA Public Safety Survey × Select your primary campus affiliation: Answers (Multi-choice (single selection)): How informed do you feel about the implementation of the Johns Hopkins Police Department (JHPD), its policies, and the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)? Answers (Multi-choice (single selection)): Given the information you have received about the JHPD, what is your opinion on the implementation of JHPD? Answers (Multi-choice (single selection)): How safe do you feel on your affiliated campus (on JHU property)? Answers (Multi-choice (single selection)): How safe do you feel off-campus but near your affiliated campus (i.e. sidewalks, off-campus housing)? Answers (Multi-choice (single selection)): How do you think the public safety around the JHU campus could be improved? Answers (Free text (multi-line)): Faster response times for Blue Jay Shuttles picking up students late at night (10/19/2022 7:24:47 AM) Have the existing guards better trained. In addition, have them not be on their phones, facetime, tiktok, etc. Better lighting around campus at night would also help, and faster blue jay shuttles so students won't walk. (10/19/2022 10:48:41 AM) Maybe more security guards as a presence for off-campus housing areas/popular off-campus areas (grocery store...?). Something else that might be helpful would be a service on Translocator app to have another person (security or group of students) coordinate walks/walk with a student if they are feeling unsafe. (10/19/2022 10:12:31 AM) Introduction of a private police force would deter criminals. Criminals tend to avoid areas with police. (10/19/2022 10:03:18 AM) Implement a police department! (10/19/2022 10:06:34 AM) In my opinion a police for or a form of high security should be imlemented to off campus areas becuase it is unsafe especually regarding armed robbery and assault cases. However, I strongly believe that police force has no place in any campus becuase no matter what, it is a form of opression and survalence. Also, the campus itself is pretty safe. (10/19/2022 10:05:56 AM) Supporting the community and integrating Hopkins into more volunteering, and community opportunities. There is a divide between Hopkins and Baltimore, and having cops on campus makes that worse. JHU has so much money and they could use it to provide better opportunities for the people of Baltimore, making crime not necessary. People steal and commit crimes because they need to, so why not spend the JHPD money on helping these people out? (10/19/2022 10:09:11 AM) Implement the JHPD. Crime will go down in the area if there is a police presence. (10/19/2022 10:05:39 AM) I don’t think it would. (10/19/2022 10:06:48 AM) Expanding HopCop area of surveillance, increasing number of HopCops (10/19/2022 10:06:07 AM) Station more security guards and train AND pay them better. Create better relationships with surrounding communities and acknowledge & address the historic and continued harm Hopkins has inflicted upon Baltimore communities. (10/19/2022 10:08:23 AM) Armed security (10/19/2022 10:05:59 AM) Have the security guards doing more active surveillance and interacting with students more. (10/19/2022 10:08:28 AM) NO POLICE. public safety would be improved by NOT having JHPD. (10/19/2022 10:08:47 AM) I don't have a good answer to this, but I don't think that increased policing in the answer. (10/19/2022 10:13:58 AM) Current public safety around the JHU campus should be increased. It's unpleasant to feel unsafe simply one block away from campus, including well traveled areas like St. Pauls. Having actual Johns Hopkins staff nearby might help to improve this, but they need to be active unlike current security. Furthermore LIGHTING AT NIGHT NEEDS TO BE IMPROVED. It is embarrassing how dark the quads and sidewalks are at night. This should be one of the first things addressed. (10/19/2022 10:12:03 AM) Better community outreach programs (10/19/2022 10:08:10 AM) It does not need to be improved. (10/19/2022 10:07:39 AM) Most issues I come across involve other undergraduate students, SA, and theft. More centralized pathways to report these may be beneficial. (10/19/2022 10:08:07 AM) Public safety could be improved with better community oversight through outreach with local neighborhoods rather than JHU acting unilaterally. Additionally, the school could take measures to actively help nearby neighborhoods and people without homes by donating money for a local housing project to help them and providing them with access to local food pantries like the ones in the lab. (10/19/2022 10:17:21 AM) Better shuttle services, especially at night time (10/19/2022 10:06:41 AM) Deal with the crack addicts on St. Paul (10/19/2022 10:07:44 AM) I believe that the current security should be spread out more. I often see multiple cars in small areas, but I do not see any near Wyman Park, an area where there have been a few robberies. I believe that instead of having a large presence in areas that are heavily populated, we should focus more on areas that provide good coverage for crime. (10/19/2022 10:08:41 AM) More patrolling officers, especially at the southern half of the campus and the side alleys (10/19/2022 10:07:52 AM) Public safety around JHU could be improved by having more campus security at more locations and more lighting. for example, walking to Homewood apartments at night is dark and dim, but lighting and increase of campus security alone would help us stay and feel safer walking in that direction. Blue jay shuttles that are actually working on a timely manner. At times we are left in a sketchy area and are waiting for 20-30 mins for a blue jay shuttle just for it to be canceled and have a Lyft sent. I've felt unsafe Manny times - especially at night - and am stuck waiting for a blue jay shuttle for far too long. In essence : 1. increase lighting 2. increase the number and locations of campus security. we find safety in numbers 3. increase number of the blue-light emergency poles - some of which don't work (I saw one going off for about 10 minutes with no response, I assume it was glitching). 4. better transportation system. It would also be SO SO helpful to have more campus security (or double persons per shift/location) so women on campus (or people who feel unsafe in general) can have someone walk them to their building at night that may be nearby housing off campus. police isn't necessary (10/19/2022 10:24:14 AM) I think Hopkins could improve the safety by no longer attempting to gentrify Baltimore and instead donate money to social support programs to help improve the disparities that exist here. (10/19/2022 10:19:28 AM) I think it would be helpful to have security guards who are more active while they are on duty. Sometimes I would walk past on duty security guards and they aren’t really “on duty”. (10/19/2022 10:08:35 AM) Personally, I do not think the JHPD will make so much of a difference if they only patrol campus and two bordering streets, it’s not gonna make a difference. I don’t think patrolling campus is going to add value at all. I think you could improve the security force and add more people to patrol around off campus housing and such, where people are getting attacked. (10/19/2022 10:12:17 AM) More range for buses/shuttles (10/19/2022 10:07:44 AM) Give all the professors swords. (10/19/2022 10:17:21 AM) I think the largest safety issues faced by Hopkins students are perpetuated by the university its self and have nothing to do with the areas surrounding campus. The greatest threat to Hopkins students safety comes from other students- for example, sexual assault and harassment on campus are the largest problems we face as students. The administration needs to stop wasting money on harassing the surrounding communities and instead deal with the culture of sexual violence fostered on campus. (10/19/2022 1:33:58 PM) Increasing police presence has been shown through research to not decrease crime rates. Instead of having an armed police force, JHU could divert the resources going towards the police force to better train and pay the present security guards. (10/19/2022 10:47:20 AM) No JHPD (10/19/2022 10:08:25 AM) No. (10/19/2022 10:12:01 AM) More police force, stronger measures to prevent crime. Many around the community travel to Homewood to use as an easier area to rob people because they know students are poorly defended and encouraged to give away their belongings in the case of a robbery. (10/19/2022 10:10:24 AM) St. Paul street is awful. It is unacceptable how often we receive public safety alerts literally taking place on the street thousands of students live. We clearly need better security right there. Hop cops aren’t useful enough at all and if they are why do we get messages as serious as armed robbery alerts on our streets just about every week?? (10/19/2022 10:14:00 AM) By not putting more cops on the street!!!! It’ll only cause anger, protests, and resentment to fester. Instead, help fund safe rehab clinics, gun control laws, and public welfare. (10/19/2022 10:12:48 AM) Public safety around JHU campus could be improved by increasing the campus security guard radius and increasing the amount of workers. (10/19/2022 10:10:34 AM) An increase in trained security officials, with actual methods to mitigate crime as it occurs (e.g. police officers) (10/19/2022 10:09:24 AM) If we have actual trained officers who are 1) armed and can act in case of an emergency instead of just report it afterwards and

2. are actually attentive especially at nighttime. (10/19/2022 10:10:15 AM)

More security (10/19/2022 10:09:59 AM) Taking the funds that are being put into the police force and distributing it to food banks, homeless shelters, mental health resources, etc to target the causes behind crime instead of punishing people who are already suffering. Better integration of Hopkins in the community by required learning about Baltimore, required EFFECTIVE community service, better framing of race and social justice in all curriculum so that students and faculty know that community issues are something EVERYONE should be aware of and not other people’s problems. Public safety will never be improved if we invoke a police state further isolating and targeting our neighbors who were here before us and will stay longer than we do or potentially target our peers because of the color of their skin. (10/19/2022 10:18:26 AM) Better lighting, improved relationship with the community (10/19/2022 10:12:06 AM) implementing JHPD, establishing more security/guard posts, let the guards have whistles to indicate any occurrences of violent/suspicious behavior and to warn passing students (10/19/2022 10:13:37 AM) Invest and protect nearby communities such that residents are not regularly displaced and pressures contributing to poverty are not heightened. There is a direct link between poverty and crime: if you want to improve public safety at JHU, you have to make the community a healthier place for full time residents to live and respect the space. (10/19/2022 10:17:27 AM) make sure jhu security thats positioned around campus are actually paying attention (10/19/2022 10:12:09 AM) Better lighting in off campus areas. The allied security people don't help when something is wrong... Replacing them with police, I believe, would improve my feel. g of security. (10/19/2022 10:13:39 AM) St paul (10/19/2022 10:11:36 AM) More education on how to not be stupid walking around particularly at night (10/19/2022 10:13:11 AM) More police presence + security (10/19/2022 10:13:54 AM) More reliable Blue Jay Shuttles/Lyft service at night that come faster and more consistently to prevent students from walking alone at late night in parts of the neighborhood with higher crime rates Realistically police won’t help with public safety; crimes are still going to happen at the same rate as without police. Police don’t help in any way besides filing crime reports and sometimes unnecessarily escalating situations. (10/19/2022 10:33:50 AM) There has been a significant increase in armed activity around campus recently, and the university must take seriously and respond to this threat to public safety. Most universities in the country have a police force and they are in cities and neighborhoods that are safer than Baltimore. It is absurd that there has been such a delay with implementing this police force which is so obviously needed by students and affiliates. (10/22/2022 11:15:39 AM) This question is difficult. It is difficult to pitch other bottom up approaches, but from the top down I think investing in on campus housing to keep students near campus would help. I also think providing improved transportation services would make it more readily accessible to students in a timely manner and that this would help. (10/19/2022 10:22:32 AM) Better connections to the community and trainings for students not used to being in a city on how to navigate more safely (10/19/2022 10:14:44 AM) The current allied security team is not effective as they only report incidents, but I do feel safer with someone on CV street corners. I do not think traditional policing is the solution but something more effective and responsive than the current situation. (10/19/2022 10:14:42 AM) Establishments of Hopkins police will be a major step forward to improve JHU safety. The student population should do their own research to better their understanding on Hopkins police matter. (10/19/2022 10:15:04 AM) JHU needs to fix the current issues with its so-called security system. I have been catcalled and yelled at multiple times by JHU campus security officers and so have several of my female friends. Many of the women on campus have experienced varying degrees of this behavior from the campus security guards, even going as far as being followed by the security officers. If JHU can't even have a proper security system that respects its students, why the hell would it be able to have a police force? I know that the implementation of a police force would be incredibly unsettling and would make myself and many others feel very unsafe as I assume it would only be a more severe continuation of what we have experienced by Hopkins Security already. (10/19/2022 10:17:20 AM) Unsure (10/19/2022 10:15:50 AM) It would be nice if there was security more frequently around the campus border, especially at night, and within campus on off- times when not many students are out (late at night, weekend mornings, etc.). I am assuming we cannot put people off-campus, but if we can it would be great to have some security near the off-campus row homes/apartments. (10/19/2022 10:24:56 AM) By havingJHPD (10/19/2022 10:18:03 AM) better lighting and repaved street by the southeast corner of campus (path from shriver to homewood apts) (10/19/2022 10:20:34 AM) Crime is due to poverty, and so that would have to be reduced. (10/19/2022 10:23:35 AM) More BPD officers down St.Paul’s street at specific hours. Fixing street lighting and traffic visibility (10/19/2022 10:20:51 AM) Improve Baltimore and waverly conditions as a whole so desperate and homeless people don’t have to beg or attack students to survive. (10/19/2022 10:29:13 AM) The hopcops should actually do something instead of just standing around doing nothing. Arm them or install trained guards in their place. I’d feel safer if there were armed police in place of the HopCops. (10/19/2022 10:23:33 AM) Attempt to improve the community by providing resources, aid, and money towards improving the neighborhoods fundamentally instead of punishing them for failing to access resources themselves. (10/19/2022 10:39:04 AM) I think that extending the security and range slightly of the already existing JHU campus security is a good idea, but not the JHPD. (10/19/2022 10:28:53 AM) I think community outreach for people near the JHU campus is paramount, though I recognize that outreach is difficult and that many people in the community would choose not to engage with outreach programs. (10/19/2022 10:29:24 AM) Implementation of JHPD/improvement of Hopkins police (many students, including I, have had the experience in which they’ve been in a potentially unsafe situation, and a Hopkins police officer has been whistling about 5 feet away doing absolutely nothing to intervene.) (10/19/2022 10:26:04 AM) More security and or police presence and patrols. (10/19/2022 10:26:25 AM) Investing funds in the surrounding community, NOT in a private police force. (10/19/2022 10:29:03 AM) There should be additional training for security guards, including deescalation training. I live off campus near where various recent crimes have occurred and I generally feel comfortable and friendly with the guards near me. However, I've had past experiences in other areas where security guards watched me being harassed and did not intervene. I do not believe the power to arrest/carry a gun would have stopped or improved those situations (replacing the security guard with a police officer would not solve the problem- rather improving the training of the guard would). (10/19/2022 10:37:00 AM) Where I live, Homewood, it often happens that late-ish at night (11 pm-12am), when I and some other people are walking from the library (for example) there is no Hopkins security in sight and some creepy people hanging around the 7/11, and once there was an instance when two nights in a row I got approached by an erratically acting man, who was shaking and speaking slurrily, and not a single security officer was in sight. If something had happened no one would be around to help me. Other days they are there. It is just inconsistent. Walking to Homewood at night is scary. (10/19/2022 10:32:30 AM) Improving security staff training, minimizing response time (10/19/2022 10:26:15 AM) We need armed security guards and guards who can actually do something instead of have their only purpose to call the police if someone is getting robbed. Armed presence will surely deter criminals from robbing students. (10/19/2022 10:30:09 AM) Increased police presence- the security guards don’t seem to be doing anything as is, so an escalation is warranted. (10/19/2022 10:28:05 AM) Lower crime in the neighborhood! Make people feel safer. Prevent crime before it happens (10/19/2022 10:29:32 AM) There are still so many armed carjackings/robberies occurring. Women can't walk around off campus without being catcalled/followed at night. There's so much that can be improved with regards to public safety. No one should feel unsafe when walking back to their place of residence. (10/19/2022 10:30:16 AM) Additional housing subsidies to baltimore residents in surrounding neighborhoods (10/19/2022 10:28:57 AM) Baltimore needs to do better in providing services to people in this city. It is true that there are an alarming number of armed robberies and carjackings around our campus. However, is this a place for the school to play God? No this is a city issue that needs to be handled by Baltimore’s government. (10/19/2022 10:35:33 AM) Have an armed component and some actual law enforcement officers. The allied universal security people can't do much if a crime occurs. (10/19/2022 10:30:18 AM) By instituting a police force and cracking down on crime. (10/19/2022 10:30:35 AM) I think JHPD would greatly improve public safety. I feel so unsafe walking around at night as a woman and worry every time that something could happen. The security guards are not armed and are not trained to step in. I feel like we really need a police force as every other city school in a dangerous area has one. (10/19/2022 10:31:08 AM) its pretty safe so far (10/19/2022 10:31:20 AM) A police department. (10/19/2022 10:32:12 AM) No armed guards, unarmed guards without arrest privileges are okay, especially at the med campus. (10/19/2022 10:49:02 AM) Improve training of JHU security force. (10/19/2022 10:39:05 AM) I think it is very good as is. With the security guards already in place I feel very safe. I feel less safe with the implementation of armed police. (10/19/2022 10:44:50 AM) Having armed, patrolling officers would be a major improvement. It would make me, and many others, feel much safer and deter much of the already existing crime around campus. (10/19/2022 10:48:39 AM) Decrease amount of "green vest" guards. (10/19/2022 10:49:57 AM) More police (10/19/2022 3:58:43 PM) More security guards around off campus housing (10/19/2022 10:49:08 AM) more training for security we already have and more lighting on campus (10/19/2022 10:51:28 AM) Provide resources and help to those around campus who may make sutudents feel unsafe. For instance, porvide housing for those experiencinh homelessness so that thet do not make students feel unsafe. (10/19/2022 10:51:24 AM) I think a more reliable method of transport than the current shuttle would be useful; as it is in my experience, it is inconvenient and have extremely long wait times that discourage my use of the shuttle, and encourage use of the relatively less safe methods of ride-sharing or walking. Additionally, I think Hopkins provide a "city safety" course (perhaps during orientation) to help inform students, especially those from less urban areas, about how to navigate safely throughout the city. (10/19/2022 10:56:11 AM) Better lights. It’s so dark walking on campus and around campus (Wyman Park area) at night (10/19/2022 10:53:27 AM) Not with guns (10/19/2022 10:51:26 AM) Literally stop people from being assaulted or mugged (10/19/2022 10:52:02 AM) The current security guards could be more attentive to their surroundings. (10/19/2022 10:54:43 AM) Public safety could be improved by implementing strategies that help the material conditions of local neighborhoods. It has been shown through many studies one of the best ways to reduce crime is through community projects that help people, so Hopkins should focus on this if they want students to have a safer experience. (10/19/2022 10:59:32 AM) Increasing number of shuttles at night. (10/19/2022 10:56:58 AM) JHPD (10/19/2022 10:59:15 AM) Public safety is maintained and upheld by the trust of the community and the work of unarmed, culturally sensitive community liaisons. The university should expand funding for community engagement programs and individuals who actively serve to better our neighborhood. (10/19/2022 11:03:26 AM) Security guards that actually look capable of stopping a crime. (10/19/2022 11:09:24 AM) Implement something that deters criminals from committing crimes. There is currently seemingly no punishment or retribution for criminals who commit crimes near Homewood. Vague safety alerts and unarmed, inattentive security guards are the only form of protection that currently exists, and that clearly hasn't stopped carjackings, assaults, robberies. We need something or someone who will actually try to put an end to that crime, and in my eyes, a more rigorous security force will help this cause. (10/19/2022 11:08:37 AM) A private police force IN CONJUNCTION with efforts to invest in the surrounding community to combat poverty and barriers to education and advancement. At the same time, not having a police force at all is silly when we have had and continue to have crimes committed in broad daylight / before dark. Wasn't a student held at what they believe to be gunpoint last spring only a block from campus around 11 am. That's ridiculous. I transferred from NYU and while there was certainly an issue with crime over there, crimes were always committed after dark. (10/19/2022 11:10:01 AM) We need security that can actually stop crimes (legally & physically) (10/19/2022 11:09:08 AM) A few weeks ago I was in a scary situation on Wyman Park Drive and 29th and ended up having to run away from someone up Wyman Parkway (bad idea in retrospect). It was concerning to me that there was a security guard on that corner but I still felt like I had to handle the situation myself. Ultimately some bystanders approached me and made sure I got home safely, which I appreciated. I just wish security was more of a resource and that it wasn't pure luck that got me home safely. (10/19/2022 1:08:16 PM) In the long term, JHU needs to better connect and collaborate with the surrounding community on the issues that burden them, but this takes time (often years to decades). In the immediate future, JHU needs to provide better protection for the safety, well- being, and lives of the students/faculty/staff that JHU is responsible for. As such I do think the JHPD is a necessary step for improving public safety in the short term. (10/27/2022 8:35:13 PM) More hopcops at ends of streets / a more effective police force. (10/19/2022 11:14:05 AM) Fund mental health services to help people in need. (10/19/2022 11:13:20 AM) A greater security/police presence in areas surrounding JHU campuses. (10/19/2022 11:12:23 AM) Given the number of armed assaults and robberies we have in the surrounding campus area, I think implementing a police force would be a good safeguard to help keep students safe. (10/19/2022 11:14:01 AM) More (free) student parking so that students can park their cars in safer areas; more (and more affordable) university housing so that there is less off-campus sprawl; survey for satisfaction with transportation services; extended Blue Jay Shuttle hours; dedicated student grocery-runs by university bus on specific days/times; strategically placed Hop Cops and security around areas (and at times) where crimes have frequently occurred, like on E University Pkwy (10/19/2022 11:33:58 AM) Free parking in parking garages so students’ cars aren’t hijacked; extended hours for the blue jay shuttle so people don’t have to walk alone in places they don’t want to, or walk at night (10/19/2022 11:23:30 AM) Implement JHPD. (10/28/2022 1:28:00 PM) The current poster guards do not really seem to do anything and it seems like a waste of the school’s money. Several people that have been assaulted have said that there was a bird nearby that did nothing. I believe better training can be implemented. (10/19/2022 11:26:47 AM) Better enforcement of traffic regulations to ensure safety of crosswalks and neighborhoods (10/19/2022 11:26:43 AM) Invest in the community (10/19/2022 11:30:30 AM) We need people who can actually protect students, not people who are simply there for show. (10/19/2022 11:42:30 AM) More lighting, more community outreach by the university (10/19/2022 11:41:47 AM) I think the blue jay shuttle should expand its range and run for longer. I would rather see more security officers rather than actual police officers. (10/19/2022 11:43:00 AM) By providing police that could deter incidents from taking place. (10/19/2022 11:46:41 AM) Add more lights (10/19/2022 11:49:52 AM) I think the system in place now is completely functional (10/19/2022 11:54:39 AM) Not a private police force. (10/19/2022 11:58:06 AM) No JHPD (10/19/2022 3:05:26 PM) Working with the community around jhu to improve economic conditions rather than putting more barriers between jhu and baltimore. (10/19/2022 12:06:47 PM) n/a (10/19/2022 12:01:23 PM) By not implementing a private JHU police force. (10/19/2022 12:02:09 PM) Focus on community imporvement (10/19/2022 12:05:55 PM) Short of the buying the surrounding area and becoming a private campus, there isn't really anything that can be done to separate the general public from the student body. We live in a large American city, so some level of unsafety is to be expected. Nowhere is ever going to be completely safe. The best thing Hopkins can do is offer free, accessible safety courses for all students regarding how to safely navigate and travel the city, avoid dangerous areas, etc. (10/19/2022 12:16:32 PM) Larger presence. From my apartment I can not see any security officers. (10/19/2022 12:14:21 PM) Stop over-policing (10/19/2022 12:37:45 PM) Implementing actual policing/security (10/19/2022 12:37:56 PM) Better lighting at night so we can walk in well-lit areas. More reliable transportation so we’re never stuck waiting by the street for a long time. (10/19/2022 12:43:34 PM) I think the public safety around the JHU campus is great. (10/19/2022 12:47:42 PM) Introduce JHPD with patrols around the campus region. Enable them to do whatever is necessary to stop crime. (10/19/2022 12:50:01 PM) Add more of the current security guards and have them stationed more frequently off campus. They do a good job and students feel safe when they are around. (10/19/2022 1:08:05 PM) I understand that there are crimes that occur on and around JHU campus. However, I feel as though there are much more severe problems on campus. Mental health is awful among Hopkins students, and I have heard consistent complaints from those to choose to seek help. Most people I know are more susceptible to breaking down and experiencing.a mental health crisis than other dangers. If anything, a JHPD will heighten those tensions for many students. (10/19/2022 1:07:45 PM) Funding private police is poorly considered and far less effective than supporting improvements and even funding the already established, government-funded Baltimore Police Department. Creating another privately-funded police department does not help the social disparities already created by an incompetent police force. (10/19/2022 1:00:12 PM) Yes I see tons of reports of violence, robberies etc. not good. (10/19/2022 1:05:49 PM) There should be security posts in and around Wyman Park. There have been a ton of robberies and I no longer feel safe walking through that area. (10/19/2022 1:04:17 PM) Increasing the amount of security and capabilities of the security officers. Currently, i would not trust campus security to prevent any crime, let alone keep students safe. (10/19/2022 1:07:30 PM) Unsure (10/23/2022 12:26:29 AM) A gate (10/19/2022 1:10:43 PM) Better training for the security guards now (10/19/2022 1:17:00 PM) Could use more guards. (10/19/2022 1:16:37 PM) Expanding the system of student transportation and increasing garage access for students with vehicles. Most safety incidents occur when affiliates are navigating spaces on foot due to lack of transportation access. (10/19/2022 1:30:09 PM) hopkins could use some of its funding to help the city of baltimore with initiatives on issues that cause public safety issues such as the opioid epidemic and the lasting effects of segregation and redlining (10/19/2022 1:31:08 PM) I wish the security guards would stop playing candy crush outside of Homewood and be more diligent in regards to people leering around the dorm or shouting at female presenting students. (10/19/2022 1:34:01 PM) Not sure (10/19/2022 1:33:16 PM) I’m not sure, but increased policing has been repeatedly shown to be ineffective. Working on more holistic solutions with the surrounding communities is probably the way to go, building mutual accountability and safety networks at a more personal level than resorting to often violent enforcement agencies. Realistically, Hopkins is in Baltimore, which deals with high crime rates. Some amount of un safety will always be part of the broader city context, and Hopkins should contribute to non-policing measures occurring outside its own community to deal with root causes of crime, rather than siloing itself off as a private institution in ask highly policed little bubble that comes at the further harm of outside communities. (10/19/2022 1:46:59 PM) Idk (10/19/2022 1:47:45 PM) Public safety around the JHU campus could be improved if sexual violence were taken seriously. Testimonials from survivors of sexual assault within the Hopkins community have shown that perpetrators are almost never held accountable and that survivors do not feel supported on campus. This allows patterns of sexual violence to continue and makes the community less safe. Enforcing consequences for perpetrators, seeking anonymous feedback from survivors, and ensuring that survivors do not have to encounter their abusers on campus are ways the university could improve public safety. (10/19/2022 2:10:38 PM) Have more surveillance during the night for off campus locations related to Hopkins (10/19/2022 2:05:27 PM) The areas around campus are public; they do not fall under the jurisdiction of the university. As a private institution, JHU has no right nor responsibility to interfere with the surrounding areas, especially given the explicit disapproval being continually voiced by the community. If public safety around (outside of) the JHU campus campus needed to be improved, that action should be taken by the residents of the area and by the city. JHU has no authority over areas outside of its campus, and efforts to extend JHU authority beyond campus is an act violence against the people of Baltimore, whom the university claims to want to protect. (10/19/2022 3:12:15 PM) implementing more security guards and officers on campus wont change anything, as a student i wouldnt feel safer because students will get robbed in broad daylight unless there's an officer on every block/corner the city itself needs to be changed but thats not JHU's problem i guess (10/19/2022 2:16:45 PM) Civic and economic investment into the city of Baltimore as a whole. (10/19/2022 2:13:55 PM) In all honesty, I think campus security is well done the way it is. I prefer the security guards being there rather than a full-blown police force. The only thing I could really think of is making places around campus a little more well lit. (10/19/2022 2:14:47 PM) More security should be patrolling the areas around campus (10/19/2022 2:19:43 PM) I don’t know :( (10/19/2022 2:20:23 PM) I think we could provide better lighting, but otherwise the current JHU safety policies. (10/19/2022 2:35:51 PM) Make it so that the bleu jay shuttle can actually take us places we need to go to. Provide a place to house the homeless as a JHU project. It is hard to improve the campus with systematic racism in place so it would have to be long term improvements. (10/19/2022 2:33:50 PM) People have to realize that Baltimore in general is an unsafe place and no amount of safety is going to change that until the issues this campus brings to the city are recognized. (10/19/2022 2:52:06 PM) I think will more security especially at night and monitoring (10/19/2022 2:50:33 PM) Fewer armed robberies happening in broad daylight around campus (10/19/2022 3:00:30 PM) Have the ability to have security walk us home (off-campus) (10/19/2022 3:03:09 PM) Yes (10/19/2022 3:02:13 PM) I think better lighting in the surrounding area could certainly improve the situation. Furthermore, I think many people who do feel unsafe, feel unsafe because of homeless people around campus. Aside from the clear economic turmoil of the past couple of years, the reason there is a lot of homelessness around campus is due to the fact that Hopkins has sponsored gentrification projects in the surrounding area, which has driven housing prices up and displaced a lot of people in the neighborhoods proximate to Homewood. (10/19/2022 3:09:16 PM) Improve relationship with surrounding community associations and actually listen to their ideas on how to reduce crime. E.g. provide funding for community initiatives rather than partnering with the BPD, which actively harms community relations and will only isolate the campus further. Additionally, the University could provide common-sense safety training to students rather than create a police force simply to give the impression of “safety.” As a woman and member of the LGBTQ community, I know for certain that I am at more risk when I enter a frat house than most other locations off-campus. If Hopkins actually cared about safety, it would need to get serious about sexual violence. In addition, I would feel safer and more protected if Hopkins offered self-defense classes than if it stationed armed police around Charles Village. Quite frankly, the JHPD would contribute to violence in Baltimore, even if it stops more property thefts in the long run. (10/19/2022 3:38:52 PM) Rather than implementing the police on and about campus, as a student I would much rather see a presence around the perimeter of the campus as several incidents have occurred that could have been prevented or had interfearence. I feel safe on campus, but as soon as I step off I am reminded of the crime and unfortunate events that take place all around the school and in the general city of Baltimore. Helping students feel safe and be safe as they leave campus I believe is of utmost importance and in the best interest of the student body. (10/19/2022 3:29:32 PM) Community engagement, direct investment in the community around Hopkins and Baltimore at large, calling on Baltimore City go house the homeless yo prevent crime victimization, streetlights, social norms, wider reaching and more accountable Hopkins shuttles, STRATEGIC placing of Hopkins security guards and cars where violent crime happens the most (as in, Public Safety needs to make a scatter plot of the places in a 2 mile radius where incidents have occurred in the past 2 years as well as one that changes weekly/monthly for rethinking of areas where high patrol should be as needed) (10/19/2022 3:44:01 PM) Campus Security needs to be more attentive to their job. Also they should have pepper spray or some nonlethal weapon. (10/19/2022 3:28:40 PM) I would support campus police patrolling the vicinities. They should avoid implementing violent measures of course, but they should have the means to deter crime. (10/19/2022 3:44:12 PM) Implementing a Hopkins-specific police force to reduce strain on the Baltimore police department, and increase the powers of campus security to respond to threats in ways other than simply calling the police (10/19/2022 3:51:43 PM) Make security response quicker and increase security off campus (10/19/2022 5:20:13 PM) Not inflicting a private police force on campus AND in the surround Baltimore community. The security we have now and the low level police we have no is fine. (10/19/2022 3:54:12 PM) more active policing (10/19/2022 4:16:14 PM) I think public safety around the JHU campus is already pretty good. (10/19/2022 4:38:50 PM) Investing in the community (improving schools, increasing access to healthy food, anti-redlining) (10/19/2022 4:59:50 PM) A hopkins police force is necessary in helping to ensure protection of its students especially given the crimes consistently being propagated nearby. (10/19/2022 5:12:50 PM) I think campus police is necessary and should be implemented as soon as possible. (10/19/2022 5:35:00 PM) I think that even without the creation of a police force, public safety around the JHU campus could be improved through more security officers being posted around campus (10/19/2022 6:09:45 PM) More guards late at night there aren’t enough on the campus. (10/19/2022 6:04:36 PM) Brighter lights around campus since the streets lights in the middle of freshman quad are too dim and the middle of the quad can be too dark. (10/19/2022 6:29:20 PM) Get some security that actually cares a little (10/19/2022 7:11:44 PM) With community policing rather than interference from the Baltimore PD (10/19/2022 7:49:13 PM) I definitely think the JHPD is a good idea. I’m tired of feeling scared off of campus all the time. I don’t think the “campus security” really are able to do anything to protect students. (10/19/2022 8:09:06 PM) More police enforcement (10/19/2022 8:26:15 PM) By using JHPD (10/19/2022 8:23:16 PM) More police patrol would definitely make it safer. It would also be nice to have more cameras and eliminate the homeless population. (10/19/2022 9:56:49 PM) More public safety promotion events. (10/19/2022 8:54:29 PM) There needs to be an on campus police department that are continuously patrolling the area.There are too many affiliate and non-affiliates being robbed and harassed at all hours of the day. The yellow jacket personnel are not helping deteriorate crime activity in the Homewood campus area. (10/19/2022 9:08:44 PM) Unsure (10/19/2022 10:42:58 PM) Embrace community-focused approaches to public safety. Do not expand your security apparatus. (10/19/2022 11:17:55 PM) Honestly, who feels SAFE walking off-campus? We get almost 10 emails per month regarding robbery and gun shooting attempts on Hopkins STUDENTS. Who feels SAFE when the risk of you and me getting hurt or robbed is so high? Investing in a police department that solely aims to keep us safe is the most reasonable and bare minimum that we could have for protection. Im not sure who those people in yellow jackets are outside campus but most of the time they're on their phones or sitting down doing nothing. We need to send a message to people that provoke crimes against us students that what they are doing needs to stop. They clearly are looking down at us laughing at how we have no means to protect ourselves while they all the means to attack us - how is an 18 year old freshman going to live and study knowing that this is going on just few steps down their doorsteps? So many other schools also have police departments to protect their students like Northeastern Police (NEPD), Boston University Police Department (BUPD), Harvard Uni Police Department (HUPD), Boston College Police Department (BCPD) Asking for a police department is FAR from absurd - so many well established universities already have their own. And for a university at the center of BALTIMORE, it seems more than necessary than any other college to be HONEST Students apartments getting broken into, forced to surrender their belongs - I mean, are we living in the PURGE? This is so not normal and so unsafe please FIX. (10/20/2022 7:50:27 PM) By implementing safety measures that aren't police. (10/19/2022 11:40:54 PM) JHU PD established, more official police with training to ensure safety (10/19/2022 11:42:26 PM) Trained unarmed Security Guards around the radius (10/19/2022 11:53:36 PM) More safety guards (10/20/2022 12:12:03 AM) Better lighting (10/20/2022 12:10:42 PM) jhpd (10/20/2022 12:14:46 PM) Have the current security be more alert in certain areas (10/20/2022 12:29:16 PM) Cut all upper admin salaries in half and use that money to invest in the surrounding city. Police do not reduce crime, ending poverty does. (10/20/2022 12:59:53 PM) Work on what you have currently to be better-- such as making sure dorms are secure (i've noticed several of the turnstiles are disabled and turn regardless of a card scan). (10/20/2022 3:35:27 PM) Sharing information on basic city safety like not walking alone at night or carrying flashy items in the open. I also think that having more security or better trained security is not necessarily a bad thing but having ARMED police will not fix the problem. (10/20/2022 4:04:25 PM) I think that public safety could be improved if we were to implement a JHU campus police force. (10/25/2022 4:37:07 PM) Install more lights around off-campus sites, increase student body knowledge of the resources available to them if they do not feel safe through PSAs (10/20/2022 4:58:27 PM) Better lighting towards the North of campus, better scheduling for shuttles (10/20/2022 4:45:48 PM) In the short term, I think promoting organized community groups within residence halls and off-campus for necessities like grocery shopping and restaurants would be the best way to improve safety since panhandlers and potential dangers decrease in likelihood when you're not walking alone. For long-term efforts, public safety could be improved through more compassionate security staff as well as engaging in more community initiatives like education and housing initiatives with more infrastructural support to address the issue of panhandlers. I would invest into more efficient structures regarding food security, consensual mental health treatment, permanent affordable housing, and medical support to improve safety. (10/20/2022 5:58:37 PM) Have more involve security officers and better education about safety in a city for students (10/20/2022 7:12:39 PM) better communication with the Baltimore communities that surround JHU campus. put in the effort to repair your relationships with these communities before policing them (10/20/2022 7:25:45 PM) Making bluejay shuttles more accessible. Right now the typical wait time is very high and rides are often cancelled. This could be improved by using route optimization algorithms, as often times when students request pick up even if a non-full van is right next to them they still have to wait in queue. Also routes could be broadened (bc so many students come back late from med campus area). We should also move funds to improving Student Health and Wellness. More broadly, it’s also important to work towards making a better relationship between Johns Hopkins and Baltimore. Johns Hopkins has historically exploited Baltimore, and if we stop doing that maybe we can work together as a community to make it a safer place for everyone. (10/20/2022 7:58:05 PM) I think by educating students on Baltimore safety, public safety, and more could help everyone’s mindset on campus be a bit more at ease. I think we already have good public safety around campus and adding a private police force is would be looking for problems that do not exist. (10/20/2022 7:56:40 PM) Providing self-defense items like pepper spray, alarm, flashlight, (10/20/2022 8:16:40 PM) I think hopkins should listen to the community about public safety needs. Students choose to come to Baltimore we knew what it was like. (10/20/2022 8:50:36 PM) More experienced personnel (10/20/2022 9:00:19 PM) N/A (10/20/2022 10:22:30 PM) I definitely think campus safety should be improved. I have personally been catcalled and followed in the surrounding blocks around campus, and this should not be happening. I also don’t feel comfortable going places around campus alone unless it’s in broad daylight. However, I believe that this can be improved upon without armed officers and with complete transparency. (10/20/2022 11:36:44 PM) I think the best way to improve public safety is to go to the root cause of why certain crimes are committed, most of the time it is lack of access to basic human needs. I think we need to recognize our role in this as students and as an institution, and come up with ways to right these wrongs. We should be building up our relationship with the community not forcing a deeper divide. (10/21/2022 12:24:21 AM) I feel that we are already doing a good job of public safety with the campus security officers, if the public safety department feels there is a need for more training or more officers that could happen. (10/21/2022 1:51:41 AM) Institute private police (10/21/2022 9:52:25 AM) Instated police force in greater radius around campus (Remington, Charles Village, Hampden, off-campus JHU buildings like Stieff Silver) and more around areas with increased crime recently (10/21/2022 11:20:20 AM) Making a Hopkins police department work with the Baltimore police department (10/21/2022 12:13:01 PM) I think we could definitely use a greater, more professional police presence in areas surrounding campus to deter crime. (10/21/2022 12:25:23 PM) Implement JHPD (10/21/2022 12:28:23 PM) I think better blue jay shuttle availability and timing (10/21/2022 12:30:02 PM) Increase safety officers stationed on campus. (10/21/2022 2:33:54 PM) I honestly feel that we should invest or implement programs to help the homeless people that are often wandering around areas like St. Paul's. (10/21/2022 2:35:44 PM) I think there should be more alternative resources provided that we can reach out to instead of just police officers. For instance, a lot of unsafe interactions I have had with people around and on campus have been due to obvious signs of mental illness - the JHPD have proven again and again that they are completely unequipped to properly handle such issues, and I don't know of any other authority figure I could call to assist instead. More police doesn't feel like the solution when they seem to have no training other than showing up for intimidation, and rather slowly at that. (10/21/2022 4:30:05 PM) I think it would be better if the security guards already present were in constant communication with BPD rather than bringing in a police force. (10/26/2022 10:52:04 AM) Community outreach and common-sense education for people unfamiliar with the area and city life in general. Being informed and aware of your surroundings is the number one way to keep yourself and others safe. (10/21/2022 6:19:02 PM) By supporting the local community directly through subsidized housing, supporting policies that Baltimoreans actually want, and raising the minimum wages and improving the benefits of local Baltimore citizens that work st Hopkins. (10/21/2022 7:59:12 PM) Bettering our current security and hiring people who actually care about keeping students safe. (10/21/2022 8:02:14 PM) I've been mugged while waiting for a night shuttle, and there are other times when I've felt very unsafe while waiting for it (i.e. alone at night and getting catcalled by a group of drunk men). I understand the demand for shuttles make the wait time longer, but I feel that if there is any way to decrease the wait time, it would also improve the general safety of students who rely on the shuttle as their only form of nighttime transportation. (10/22/2022 1:39:22 AM) They do a good jon (10/22/2022 8:23:42 AM) Additional vetting process and training for existing JHU Security on when to intervene and how to intervene. (10/22/2022 1:09:08 PM) Security that is actually engaging with citizens and are alert not goofing off on their phones (10/22/2022 2:42:27 PM) Implement a real hopkins police force with access to guns. (10/22/2022 2:50:46 PM) I think that Hopkins security guards could simply be armed in order to have students feel safer. There is no need for a JHPD. (10/22/2022 4:38:19 PM) it’s amazing as is (10/22/2022 10:19:23 PM) I do not think that public safety around campus needs to be improved. (10/23/2022 2:09:07 PM) I don't know, ask the people who actually live in the area. The staff and workers here should be filling out this survey, not students. (10/23/2022 2:12:10 PM) Implement tough-on-crime policies to deal with petty crime (10/23/2022 6:47:32 PM) I think there can be more stationed, not armed security guards on west sides of campus. I think the shuttles should run more of the day and the night service to be expanded to be more reliable so students can travel safely if they do not feel safe walking. (10/24/2022 5:13:51 PM) Adding security in off-campus housing (10/24/2022 5:14:25 PM) Make pathways and routes on and around campus more accessible for people with disabilities (10/24/2022 5:37:26 PM) If the public security officers around campus would simply pay more attention or be allowed to intervene in more issues I think a whole lot of problems could be solved. Arming them is a step too far. (10/24/2022 5:43:38 PM) More investment in public housing and organizations addressing homelessness so that people experiencing homelessness are not on the street. They are usually harmless, but many Hopkins affiliates are off-put by their presence and call it "unsafe" rather than a nuisance, at most. (10/24/2022 6:06:33 PM) Increase police presence (10/24/2022 8:19:16 PM) I believe the area around the JHU campus would be considerably safer with an increased police presence as a deterrent to prevent crime from happening in the vicinity to affiliates and non-affiliates alike. Hopkins security passively turns a blind eye to crime in the area; it is as if they weren't there at all. (10/24/2022 8:54:43 PM) Once I pass the Scotts-Bates Commons, I think it can get a little suspicious and you have to be alert. A friend once told me she was followed by an older man who kept trying to talk to her while walking back from Nolan's to campus. I myself have had negative interactions with the people on the side of the street that UniMini and Chipotle are on and have heard similar stories from other friends who have all come to the general consensus to avoid that side of the street and cross over once across from the store we want to go to. (10/24/2022 9:01:29 PM) There are too many robberies. However, I have not been impacted personally. (10/24/2022 9:01:41 PM) The emergency stations never seem to be working, but if those were fixed, I would feel safer. (10/24/2022 9:06:39 PM) Public Safety could be improved through education, not by adding a police force. Many students are not as alert as they should be when walking the streets, which is why they may not feel safe. It is all about watching your surroundings and not looking down at your phone. (10/24/2022 9:11:51 PM) I think the security should be more focused, rather than on FaceTime/watching Netflix during their shifts. We don't need police, just better enforcement of the security on campus. (10/24/2022 10:20:37 PM) Not expanding a private police force would help with public safety. Paying cops more statistically does not reduce crime, neither does expanding a police force. To target safety, we have to target the homelessness issue and poverty that leads to the crimes occurring. (10/25/2022 2:38:29 AM) I think it is pretty good right now (10/25/2022 9:53:17 AM) Implementation of jhpd (10/25/2022 12:25:16 PM) increased security and deterrance (10/25/2022 6:21:43 PM) We need people who pay attention to what is going on around campus so no more students are abducted. (10/25/2022 7:00:35 PM) -no cops or off-duty cops on or near campus and other university property. -do not allow JHU security to share information with or collaborate in any way with Baltimore Police Department. -an expansive and well-funded mental health crisis emergency response that does not involve any police or security. The mental health crisis response should not involve anyone with a gun, arrest powers, nor assault powers. -provide and lobby for substantial funding for improved housing and food security in low- income neighborhoods surrounding all JHU properties and beyond. (10/26/2022 12:34:43 AM) Stronger monitoring of the nearby homeless population on campus, or a strong encouragement made towards them to relocate from this area. Maybe increase the campus security guards pay so that they might be more incentivized to care about protecting students, rather than see it as a job where they just stand and watch. (10/26/2022 11:01:34 AM) It would be nice to know that there were people/officers around to prevent and intervene in possible crimes. Especially at night off-campus. (10/27/2022 8:43:01 AM) The hop cops around campus make me feel safe. I like that they are near my place of residence and on several blocks around the hopkins bubble. (10/26/2022 10:48:42 AM)

1. The most dangerous component around the JHU campus I have experienced is the extended period of time of the

construction of “The Study Hotels.” It has blocked a large portion of sidewalk on 31st St. It increases the risk of automobile incident and is discomforting for both drivers and pedestrians. 2. Better paved sidewalks and/or more bike lanes would decrease risk of injury, especially for individuals who want to exercise, bike, skate, etc. (10/26/2022 11:11:48 AM) spaces in which community-wide we can all participate in improving public safety (e.g. ways in which the students can support the JHPD and learn more about why the state of the campus is the way it is right now through the public health and sociology lens) (10/31/2022 12:03:49 AM) Work w/ local government & private sector to provide jobs & opportunities to local residents in crime/poverty areas of Baltimore (10/26/2022 11:32:08 AM) More patrols with police standing at and watching corners rather than the current security who can only report if something happens but not do anything about it. (10/26/2022 10:46:23 AM) More police presence (10/26/2022 10:45:03 AM) Increasing the number of security guards could be more helpful than having a private police. (10/26/2022 10:46:36 AM) By allocating funding to community programs that are shown to decrease rates of violent crimes within the community. (10/26/2022 10:54:31 AM) More security people in vests to report crime. (10/26/2022 10:50:21 AM) Definitely (10/26/2022 10:49:12 AM) Would it be possible to have blue light systems near the off-campus housing and outside the university? (10/26/2022 10:50:44 AM) JHPD, gentrification (10/26/2022 10:54:43 AM) I believe we definitely need more security around the campus’s neighboring streets. The current task force is incapable of action so I feel aid will help a lot (10/26/2022 11:05:59 AM) Start implementing no-tolerance policies of crime and start releasing more detailed police reports. (10/26/2022 10:56:04 AM) better lighting on off campus housing streets like E 33rd (10/26/2022 10:55:08 AM) Presence of an actual police force may deter crime. (10/26/2022 11:00:18 AM) More JHPD presence, have someone at every corner actually paying attention. (10/26/2022 10:59:00 AM) More involvement off campus (10/26/2022 10:59:11 AM) More security guards on St. Paul Street, more rigorous control of current security guards (including making sure they're not on their phones FaceTiming on-duty) (10/26/2022 11:06:46 AM) More security, more patrol, better ability to do things to help what seems like weekly car jackings armed robberies and kidnappings (10/26/2022 11:05:07 AM) Baltimore needs better housing services to help relieve homelessness. Unless the police are going to board homeless people in their homes, I can’t imagine how they could possibly help. (10/26/2022 11:05:47 AM) Offering programs to the local communities and enriching the local area will eventually result in better public safety. (10/26/2022 11:05:35 AM) implementation of the JHPD (10/26/2022 11:05:14 AM) More police (10/26/2022 11:08:28 AM) I support JHPD (10/26/2022 11:07:03 AM) More police presence. It's unacceptable for us to have so much crime in the surrounding blocks of campus in broad daylight. (10/26/2022 11:08:34 AM) There should be more security guards at every single area on and around campus who are actively looking out for suspicious individuals. We are getting email notifications every day of robberies and assaults, and it seems as though the incidents are getting worse. The other day, a random man was able to walk into a girls' suite in Charles Commons, and recently, a JHU affiliate was struck and forced into a car. Both of these events could have ended even more badly than what (fortunately) had happened. Is Hopkins waiting for a student or JHU affiliate to be severely harmed before taking any actual initiative to protect everyone's safety? Because that is what it seems like. Also, sometimes walking alone or walking at night is unavoidable for students, so JHU should make it a priority to take this seriously and make sure that no JHU affiliate ever feels uncomfortable or is harassed or harmed. The incidents that have occurred are unacceptable and should have never have happened. It is JHU's responsibility to ensure the safety of all of their students and affiliates. (10/26/2022 11:23:16 AM) Offer more self defense classes for students and add more blue safety lights (10/26/2022 11:11:38 AM) I think that there should be more competent safety individuals. (10/26/2022 11:19:19 AM) Better street lighting on and off campus (10/26/2022 11:13:01 AM) Security/police who are compotent. The current security guards very clearly do not care about their work and are often seen sleeping on the job, etc. It seems like if something were to happen, a security guard could do nothing to intervene (10/26/2022 11:15:38 AM) Increase the ranges of campus patrol to include some nearby off-campus neighborhoods (100 West, the Academy, areas hear R House, etc.) and activate shuttle or Lyft services starting from 5 pm instead of 6 pm. (10/26/2022 11:22:54 AM) Honestly, the security on campus does not look or feel reliable. Especially in the residence halls, most of the guards are usually on the phone or constantly rotating, even staying in the common rooms after their shift finishes on the phone or doing something else. If something were to happen, I don’t feel as though they’d help. I think having a better presence would be better. (10/26/2022 11:33:57 AM) I don’t know, but you need to do something. (10/26/2022 11:34:43 AM) Public safety does not need to be improved around campus. People should just stop worrying so much about isolated incidents that most likely will not happen to them. (10/26/2022 11:44:27 AM) Community engagement, education, and unity. Improved JHPD may be a possible solution but I'd like to see how it'd play out (10/26/2022 11:45:57 AM) It seems a bit ridiculous for someone to literally get abducted 10 feet off from campus. Seems that just having people there that may be able to deter or stop actively occurring crimes would help… (10/26/2022 11:47:30 AM) Implementing security guards on university parkway and more initiatives surrounding communities on Greenmount. (10/26/2022 11:50:03 AM) I think there needs to be more armed police around Charles Street, especially at night to stop the recent muggings. (10/26/2022 11:50:30 AM) I am no expert on this so I don't not know the exact means. But I think there should definitely be more measures to increase students' safety so that they can walk home without the fear of being robbed/assaulted. At the very least, series of crimes with similar patterns should not emerge (like the recent burglary in 3700 block). And at the very least, students should at least feel safe in broad day light? It seems that many of the incidents happen during the day, not even at late night. Also, I think Hopkins should publish a map that informs us about where not to go during certain times of the day? so that we can feel safer when we are in certain areas and avoid certain places? I personally find it hard to figure out where recent incidents happen and it would help if the school makes that clear so that students can take precautions accordingly? (10/26/2022 12:12:33 PM) jhpd (10/26/2022 12:15:29 PM) Offer more support to the community surrounding the school. Perhaps safehouses, shelters, drug recovery clinics, etc. Introducing additional policing to the community will only add to the fear of the community and subsequently result in more violence. Peace follows comfort, and violence follows insecurity. (10/26/2022 12:33:46 PM) More social workers and mental health professionals to help unhoused individuals around campus. (10/26/2022 12:22:21 PM) Implementing JHPD (10/26/2022 12:27:36 PM) Have more security cameras and patrolling officers with better lit streets at night (10/26/2022 12:34:14 PM) i think they’re doing a good job at the moment. It’s a city it will feel unsafe from time to time. (10/26/2022 12:50:25 PM) Better security in JHU affiliated apartment complexes, more training for campus security, self-defense classes, supporting our surrounding communities to create a safer environment overall. (10/26/2022 12:54:59 PM) Yes, crime has been increasing and JHPd could probably help prevent some of the recent increase in crime around campus (10/26/2022 1:02:23 PM) I think continuing to have security officers is a good path forward, but Hopkins’ own police force would not be a good path forward (10/26/2022 1:21:59 PM) implementation of more, better-trained security/police (10/26/2022 1:48:46 PM) By supporting the new JHU police force being implemented (10/26/2022 1:49:26 PM) Remove JHUPD (10/26/2022 1:57:22 PM) n/a (10/26/2022 2:02:27 PM) Vehicle patrolling police officers around campus perimeter. Numerous new high resolution camera surveillance on campus perimeter, monitored as well. Information on what to do during and after we are robbed. Sessions on how to prevent robberies. How we can walk around campus without looking like easy targets. How to strategically minimize what on-person possessions are robbed. Procedures/general guides on how to stop a credit/debit card or permanently factory-compromise a phone when they are stolen. (10/27/2022 3:50:29 PM) Need police with GUNS. WEAPONS. Not just security guards at each corner of campus (only 4 corners) in yellow jumpsuits with no way to protect against perpetrators (10/26/2022 2:22:51 PM) More blue light emergency stations and flood lights (10/26/2022 2:24:37 PM) Patrol officers circulate more often in off-campus areas. (10/26/2022 2:27:57 PM) I don’t think it can be. This is what it’s like to live in a city and people need to get used to it. I’ve lived in the south side of Chicago and have seen way worse. I think the lack of safety around JHU is exaggerated. (10/26/2022 2:27:24 PM) Recent armed robbery all happened pretty close to the campus, basically one street across, but obviously we need to leave campus sometimes, so JHPD is really necessary for students. (10/26/2022 2:52:36 PM) More security in areas surrounding campus, especially at night (10/26/2022 2:58:04 PM) Increased frequency of Hopkins security officers around campus. (10/26/2022 3:09:35 PM) Police. A lot of them. With batons and guns. (10/26/2022 3:12:44 PM) I don't think there is anything that can or should be done. Things are fine the way they are. Outside of campus is Baltimore and not under control of the school. (10/26/2022 3:35:59 PM) More thorough dispersement of the green-vest security gaurds, especially by the sports fields (10/26/2022 4:16:15 PM) More resources about public safety, classes (10/26/2022 5:02:45 PM) Expand the blue jay shuttle system and invest in more vans and improving the app. Pay well and train your security guards. If you can't even train security guards, how can we trust this institution to train armed police officers? Invest in mental health resources and preventing sexual harassment. This school does not hold rapists accountable and they're still in our classrooms, how are you going to keep police officers accountable? (10/26/2022 5:22:51 PM) I don't really go off of campus that much. (10/26/2022 5:36:18 PM) investment into local communities so that people are not incentivized to commit crimes (10/26/2022 6:10:07 PM) By implementing more safety measures, such as increasing security guards. (10/26/2022 8:04:27 PM) more investment in surrounding community (10/26/2022 8:30:26 PM) I don’t see anything much more than could be ethically done (10/26/2022 9:08:52 PM) I don't know. But I don't know how effective "more security" would be. The current security guards already seem somewhat apathetic. Plus crime is kind of a societal issue and we should really be trying to reduce poverty sooooo..... (10/26/2022 9:42:31 PM) maybe have police officers but unarmed (10/26/2022 9:48:57 PM) a better security guard system: better wage for security guards more shifts (they have to work very long hours without a shift) more training on racial profiling (10/26/2022 10:05:50 PM) If the security had at least a taser or pepper spray, or even have mock guns (in holsters for intimidation), I would feel safer. (10/26/2022 10:10:45 PM) More police. A lot more. Preferably armed. I don't think expanding the police force is the only answer, or even the permanent answer, but it's what we need right now to ensure that students' lives are not endangered one block away from campus. We might consider downsizing only after the other measures have seen noticeable success (10/26/2022 10:36:26 PM) Providing holistic support to surrounding communities. (10/26/2022 10:46:47 PM) More frequent patrols so no incidents happen on or near campus. (10/26/2022 11:17:24 PM) The school should have an idea of how poor the security is around campus. Have more security guards take note of streets where crime has been committed to keep a closer eye on. More descriptions of the perps after a crime has been committed (ethnicity, etc). (10/27/2022 12:50:26 AM) I don't think there needs to be a significant change. Basically everything that a Hopkins student needs can be found within 2 blocks of campus on St. Paul, or in the other direction by the Rotunda. The current presence of campus security staff has felt like an effective form of protection. It feels very safe during the day, and if I need to run an errand at night, the continued availability of Blue Jay Shuttles allows me to feel comfortable traveling further without needing to walk in less safe areas. (10/27/2022 10:47:31 AM) If there were less people. (10/27/2022 11:51:41 AM) Free parking for all students, police force (with accountability), more security guards with tasers, and more. (10/27/2022 12:56:49 PM) NA (10/27/2022 1:27:42 PM) More Hopkins security officers (not police officers) in the blocks north of campus (such as near 100 West University Parkway, where the recent robbery was) (10/27/2022 2:31:20 PM) Not sure honestly Maybe having police armed with non-lethal methods on campus? (10/27/2022 2:49:35 PM) The best way is to increase security. Baltimore is a high crime city and the safety of the students should be the number one priority. (10/27/2022 4:18:21 PM) Maybe more foot patrolling, in case of potential assault or robbery/theft. (10/27/2022 6:58:47 PM) To be honest, I don't know. (10/27/2022 9:37:44 PM) Not let people get abducted close to campus (10/28/2022 5:47:21 AM) Hire more campus police officers to reduce weekly incidents of armed robbery. I am very concerned and alarmed by the frequency of incidents and believe that the University needs to do more to ensure student safety and keep criminals off our campus. (10/28/2022 11:43:35 AM) JHPD would definitely deter crime. (10/28/2022 5:29:16 PM) having police units available with training. other universities have been able to implement campus-specific police forces that allow for the keeping of the grounds but also doesn't harm the students (ex. UT Austin) (10/29/2022 3:02:01 PM) Use this space to provide any feedback or concerns you would like to pass to Johns Hopkins University administrators such as Vice President Bard and President Daniels. Your response will be completely anonymous. Answers (Free text (multi-line)): Concerns are that: 1. JHPD will profile POC students on campus 2.JHPD will be unable to properly deescalate situations 3. JHPD will worsen existing tensions between JHU and Baltimore (10/20/2022 3:58:01 PM) Please implement the JHPD as soon as possible. It will make the campus and the surrounding area safer. (10/19/2022 10:03:19 AM) Most top universities have their police departments. For Hopkins, establishing one is catching up, not taking a step back or becoming less progressive. (10/19/2022 10:03:18 AM) We have seen time and time again that the presence of police officers deters crime. Since I am in favor of measures that deter crime, and since there is a non-trivial amount of thoroughly avoidable crime that occurs on or near our campus, and since I believe our current corpus of laws to be sufficiently just, I am in strong favor of the implementation of a private, Johns Hopkins police force. Furthermore, I believe many of the arguments against the JHPD are flawed, either relying on straw man arguments or simply emotions. (10/19/2022 10:06:34 AM) It should be limited to only off campus, and the police force should go thruogh extra training via several NGOs for anti- racist/sexist etc traininh (10/19/2022 10:05:56 AM) Policing doesn't address the root of the problem, it just exacerbates it. Cops on campus make me feel less safe and I can't even begin to imagine what black students must feel. Though it doesn't matter what we say, they will implement the JHPD regardless... (10/19/2022 10:09:11 AM) how long until a student is beaten (10/19/2022 10:04:59 AM) I think historic discrimination and targeting would occur not only with the neighbors but the student body. Implementation of a JHUPD would completely ignore the concerns of the majority black and brown students as well as the non-minority allies. Dismissing such policy would help prevent protests, concerns, and any instance where students feel the opposite of safe. (10/19/2022 10:06:48 AM) I am continuously disappointed by administration's refusal to understand and support the needs of BIPOC students on campus. There is no evidence to indicate that increasing policing would address the crime near campus (which consistently occurs OUTSIDE the specified JHPD jurisdiction), and admin's attempts to market to parents of wealthy students, instead of protecting the Baltimore community and its own students, are atrocious and unacceptable. (10/19/2022 10:08:23 AM) The Hopkins community haven't had the chance to meet the PD officials coming to campus, so we have no reason to trust them. I wouldn't trust any PD officer unless I head from them individually and specifically about their goals and guiding principles, especially why they're taking this position and what it means to them to uphold safety. (10/19/2022 10:08:28 AM) you asked for community feedback and you received it. The majority do not support JHPD. it’s time to listen to the student body and Baltimore community. it’s the least you could do to repair the harm that JHU has enacted already on the surrounding Baltimore community since the start of the school. Also, JHU itself has released studies about how schools with excessively high security have worse academic performance. i implore you to look into this study (10/19/2022 10:08:47 AM) The implementation of the JHPD seems to detail to your students that the administration doesn't trust us. It feels as though you're trying to keep a leash on us. It's stifling. (10/19/2022 10:13:58 AM) The JHPD is useless if they only serve on-campus and less than a block away. It should extend past Calvert street and past University. On campus safety isn't the concern, its a few blocks off that are. The fact that we keep getting emails about robberies is embarrassing, this shouldn't be the case. (10/19/2022 10:12:03 AM) The "big stick" policy doesn't work here. Until JHPD assaults a student/faculty or worse, you won't see how bad this could be. Open your eyes. You know this is about your bottom dollar, but if an incident were to occur, think about how that would impact the Hopkins image... (10/19/2022 10:08:10 AM) Historically, JHU has had an extremely negative impact on its surrounding, predominantly black, community. By instituting a private police force, it would only increase inequity by further policing these communities. (10/19/2022 10:07:39 AM) Please do not institute a private police force in a community that has too often been brutalized and victimized by the police. The school already has a tenuous relationship with the nearby neighborhoods in gentrifying the local area and expanding the school's outreach/security far beyond the Homewood campus. Why add to their stresses with a police force in the service of a few people if any? (10/19/2022 10:17:21 AM) implementing police force on campus will further divide the relationship between jhu and Baltimore. How can jhu pride itself on being a school in Baltimore, when Baltimore itself does not claim us because we dont help this city as much as we should. This will cause a HUGE divide between the institution and Baltimore. Police force on campus will also cause trouble among people of color on campus: we know that police are already given far too much power, and on a PWI you are bound to see a bias against people of color. This is a problem waiting to happen with students, jhu affiliates and even non affiliates that are in the area. bias still exists and JHPD will do more harm than good. (10/19/2022 10:24:14 AM) It is concerning that Hopkins continues to try to implement this police force when for years both the students and community have protested against it. (10/19/2022 10:19:28 AM) The administration rarely interacts with students and has fostered an authoritarian campus environment. With that level of disregard for students, I don’t want you all to have a legally untouchable army of pigs. (10/19/2022 10:17:21 AM) I wholeheartedly disagree with the implementation of the JHPD. This is a ridiculous project that is wasting thousands of dollars and will provide a greater danger to students and the community surrounding Hopkins campuses. The argument that a "silent majority" supports the implementation of the JHPD is illogical and invalid. Students and faculty have for YEARS been clear that we do not support the private police force. It is clear that implementing the JHPD is a move to make rich suburban white parents feel that their children are safe in the "dangerous" city of Baltimore. In reality, the actions of the Johns Hopkins administration in what is making this community more dangerous. Rather than using the numerous funds the university has to help Baltimore communities that have been systematically impoverished, Hopkins has consistently participated in the gentrification and disruption of Baltimore neighborhoods. The JHPD is just another step in that direction- people in the community will face harassment from these officers without a doubt. This police force poses an incredible threat to all students of color as well- especially our black students on campus. Hopkins preaches inclusivity and loves to boast how many first generation and limited income students we've recruited, and how diversity has increased. If this is something Hopkins truly values, then the administration should listen to the voices of these students and actually support them rather than continuing with the implementation of a police force that so many are against. (10/19/2022 1:33:58 PM) To whom it may concern, As a black student on campus, I am aware that it is a privilege to go to Johns Hopkins University. That being said, this privilege does not extend to the fact that I am still subject to discrimination by police forces. Given the history police forces have both in Baltimore and nationally with black people and other minority groups, I do not feel as though implementing a Johns Hopkins Police Department (JHPD) is a good way to mend the relationship with the Baltimore community. By implementing a police force that may cause them more harm than good, you are further damaging the relationship with the community that Hopkins has historically harmed. While your intentions may be pure in wanting to increase safety and security on campus, you risk putting black students and faculty as well as those in the neighboring Baltimore community in harm's way or facing much discomfort. I will pose the following scenario to you to highlight the harm JHPD will have on the Baltimore community. As I have stated, it is a privilege for me to go to Johns Hopkins University because historically, many others who look like me and come from my background have not had this opportunity. If I leave campus to go home after a long night of studying, what is preventing the JHPD from stopping me for a fear that my behavior seems suspicious? I tell them that I am a Hopkins student going home, and nothing more occurs. What would happen to someone who looks like me if they were waking home near campus who is not a student. If the JHPD stops them to speak to them as they feel as though their behavior is suspicious, what is stopping JHPD from discriminating against this person? They do not have the privilege I do of being a Hopkins student. Does this mean they are therefore subject to more discrimination because they do not attend Hopkins? The privilege Hopkins students have should not be used to harm those who do not have this same privilege. The safety of a select minority of students should not be justification for causing more harm to the Baltimore Community. It should also be noted that JHPD will not prevent crime from happening. Through much research, it has been shown that police forces do not decrease crime rates. So, if the intention is to reduce crime in and around campus, invading these areas with armed police officers will not reduce crime from occurring. Hopkins has a lot of resources and influence on Baltimore. In order to compromise, I feel as though Hopkins should use the funds going towards the private police force and instead provide resources such as mental health facilities, and funding for education into the Baltimore community so that people will not have to resort to crime. I hope that you hear the concerns of the opposition and take into consideration both the historical and ongoing struggle many minority groups face in response to police forces, including JHPD. (10/19/2022 10:47:20 AM) No JHPD (10/19/2022 10:08:25 AM) Why would you ask us for our opinions when you have no intention of listening to them and continue with proceedings anyway? (10/19/2022 10:12:01 AM) I fully support the implementation of JHPD and I believe I am in the silent majority regarding this. Crime has spiked recently in homewood and we need something to protect students. (10/19/2022 10:10:24 AM) Personally, I think yes protesters to a police force can be mad. But, better mad and SAFE than happy and UNSAFE. (10/19/2022 10:14:01 AM) The JHPD is a terrible idea. Johns Hopkins is already in poor standing with many Baltimoreans: what will putting more cops, who already have a hostile relationship with Baltimoreans, on the street do to keep us safe? More cops and cop funding has never been the solution. Instead, maybe Hopkins should advocate for rehabilitative drug centers, better public welfare, assistance and work for homeless people, and gun control. Fewer poor and starving people means lower crime rates. More cops does not mean lower crime rates. (10/19/2022 10:12:48 AM) DONT fucking DONT implement a private police force. There will be not only consequences for students, but Baltimore civilians as well. We already harm the Baltimore community. If you do ANY sort of research about private police forces on campus, they don't positively impact said campuses. (10/19/2022 10:10:34 AM) Any arguments against the creation of the JHPD are being driven mainly from emotions. When you look at the situation on campus and actually take time to read the documents rather than making some grandiose statement about racism (and I say this as a POC), you see would see that there is nothing wrong with the implementation of the JHPD. (10/19/2022 10:11:15 AM) The student body and public has repeatedly stated that they do not want a private police force, yet our concerns have been repeatedly ignored or shut out. The school claims that it wants to increase diversity, why would this be pushed through in the wake of the police brutality (a lot of it done BY Baltimore City police) that disproportionately targets Black and Brown people. This will make a large portion of the student body uncomfortable and unsafe on their own campus, there is precedent of university police shooting and killing students of color because they “thought they were a criminal”. (10/19/2022 10:18:26 AM) I think it is your responsibility as administrators to listen to the students and community members, especially those who are minorities. (10/19/2022 10:12:06 AM) I am (very) concerned still about all the reported cases, especially near the streets of Homewood Apts (10/19/2022 10:13:37 AM) Policing is reactive, not proactive. If you want long term solutions that don't require abuse and harassment of Charles Village residents, look for solutions that don't focus on police. (10/19/2022 10:17:27 AM) I hope the JHPD is able to form as the amount of armed crimes near campus is alarming for upperclassmen off campus. (10/19/2022 10:13:40 AM) Cater to the majority of your students not to a small minority, parents, alumni, or other outside evaluators. What matters are the people who go here not the people who don’t. (10/19/2022 10:13:11 AM) Please do not give in to a very vocal minority that does not support the jhpd. There is a large silent majority of people who cannot voice their opinions for fear of social exclusion who support the police and feel unsafe around campus. There have been 5 armed robberies in the last month on the road I walk almost daily to reach my Hopkins lab (Stieff silver building). I don’t feel safe. (10/19/2022 10:13:54 AM) The way that the administration has put up this facade that they are taking in input but completely ignore student protests over the past many years is very disappointing, especially for an institution that supposedly values student voices and democratic values. The town halls recently painted a reputation of protesters as silencing community input when in reality the protesters are the real community input. Regardless of how many people actually fully support JHPD or not, the execution of this plan against the protests of the students, faculty, and local community will have a very disastrous impact on JHU’s reputation in Baltimore. This is just one of the many decisions of a tone deaf institution that makes half-baked calls to engage with the community while turning face and implementing more policing into a community that has problems with overpolicing and distrust in institutions. (10/19/2022 10:33:50 AM) Having JHPD on campus would in a lot of ways make me feel unsafe (and I know I’m not the only one). Even disregarding that (which you shouldn’t), I think that the proposed impacts of a JHPD are being overestimated. One simply must look at the stats to see how underwhelming they are. Lastly, I hardly think the JHPD would help in any regard in improving relations between campus and the surrounding community. (10/19/2022 10:22:32 AM) Do not implement the JHPD. You are a very diverse university in one of the largest majority black cities in the country, you will only alienate the university further from the city, and discourage perspective students. More cops do NOT make us feel safe (10/19/2022 10:14:44 AM) . (10/19/2022 10:15:50 AM) NO JHPD EVER It will not make us safer if the campus is so poorly lit, and it’s not worth the risk to Black students & community members. (10/19/2022 10:20:34 AM) The community does not want this as it will make being here less comfortable and less safe. (10/19/2022 10:23:35 AM) I think the JHPD is theoretically a good idea but discounts that it will make much of the student body feel LESS SAFE on campus. It’s also important to consider that all or almost all women will feel unsafe to some degree anywhere in public, due to societal standards that Jhu cannot fix. Feeling unsafe does not equal being unsafe, and sometimes feeling unsafe and preparing for any potential threat is better than blindly walking around and becoming more of a target (10/19/2022 10:29:13 AM) Students are very concerned about safety. Don’t let the vocal minority prevent you from doing your job which is to protect students first and foremost. (10/19/2022 10:23:33 AM) It's not worth it to develop a police force on campus. Why enforce issues with force when you can address the problem through positive interaction with the community? (10/19/2022 10:39:04 AM) I'm just concerned that, if implemented, the JHPD will be too overbearing on us. And, it would be unfitting for a university to have its own PD. (10/19/2022 10:28:53 AM) I believe the Johns Hopkins police force is a good idea given the recent rise in crime such as armed robbery and attacks on affiliate‘s and non-affiliate‘s of the university. I want myself and my fellow classmates to feel safe going to and from campus and presently I do not feel that way. (10/19/2022 10:26:25 AM) I believe the implementation of JHPD is egregious. While Hopkins claims to support the city and community of Baltimore, this action demonstrates the complete opposite. Implementing JHPD will further divide Hopkins from the community. It also puts JHU students in danger, as the policing system has a centuries-old history of targeting innocent people of color. There are better solutions to make JHU a safer campus, but establishing a private police force is not the solution. Many students and faculty and affiliates would be eager to help the administration brainstorm and create an alternative. (10/19/2022 10:29:03 AM) I am most concerned with the attitudes of my classmates. My home town is a city, so I feel familiar and comfortable navigating a city. While I recognize how an uptick in security notifications can be frightening for people, the instinct to demonize the community and increase policing is concerning for me. The history and impact of policing on people of color, particularly Black people, is known and well understood. With all the resources the university and students have, it feels students are choosing to be ignorant on this topic. I would also like to note that other prestigious universities are moving away from private police forces, and students at other prestigious universities are protesting to remove these police forces. I believe instating a police force puts JHU two steps behind every other high ranking institution. (10/19/2022 10:37:01 AM) I understand the Hopkins PD decision is not coming from a place of regards for our safety, because if that were the case, simply hiring a few more security guards, or distributing them better, would solve the safety issue. I do not believe the presence of an armed police force on campus will make anyone feel safer, will create a culture of fear among students, and drastically affect the local residents. It is just not worth it in my eyes. If you were to take a poll among all Hopkins students tomorrow about the police force an overwhelming majority would say a flat out no. (10/19/2022 10:32:30 AM) If students want to dissent, let them. I don’t want to see an armed robbery once to twice a week. I don’t want to worry about losing the little money in my pocket or the few valuables I brought here. I don’t want to constantly worry about criminals just a block away from campus. I need to attend this place with a decent sense of security, and I’d like to be able to walk to Church without getting jumped. (10/19/2022 10:30:09 AM) I fully support JHPD. The measures that have been taken to implement the JHPD will hold people accountable and are very well worded. (10/19/2022 10:29:32 AM) There are still so many armed carjackings/robberies occurring. Women can't walk around off campus without being catcalled/followed at night. There's so much that can be improved with regards to public safety. No one should feel unsafe when walking back to their place of residence. (10/19/2022 10:30:16 AM) No jhpd. Shut it down (10/19/2022 10:28:58 AM) No JHPD! With a private police force JHU will be establishing itself as a racist institution that does not care for its students of colors or other individuals concerned by having a police force. Police have time and time again been shown to be racist in their actions, and it is clear that the most harm will be done to BIPOC students as well as to Black non- JHU affiliates in the areas near campus. JHU clearly wants to be thought of as an inclusive university, and this is a major step back. The fact that JHU is considering arming this police force is only more dangerous. There should be no guns on campus! History has shown that officers with guns are all too often afraid to act in times of need (look no further than Uvalde). Police officers don’t stop or prevent crime, they just do a faulty job of trying to respond after. If JHU cares about their students, they will listen to what we are saying and not implement a police force! (10/19/2022 10:35:33 AM) I completely support the implementation of the JHPD and encourage Vice President Bard and President Daniels to move forward. (10/19/2022 10:30:35 AM) I don't really understand why they seemed to be deemed necessary and worthy of our funding when it could be allocated other places. I'm also not interesting trying to learn what their policies/jurisdiction is when only communicated in legal jargon, like I'd like to know what they can and can't do in layman's terms because otherwise they seem like a waste of money with no presence on campus. (10/19/2022 10:32:36 AM) We do not need a JHPD. Campus police will just introduce more violence into the community. I am concerned that those pushing the JHPD are not listening to the students and staff (including the senate of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences) who have been very clear that they do not want a JHPD. (10/19/2022 10:35:50 AM) As long as they don't racially profile students and know how to deal with mental health issues it would work great. (10/19/2022 10:32:12 AM) A police force is unnecessary, a waste of money, and will cause greater hatred towards our institution from the residents of Baltimore. Their opinion of Hopkins is already negative, and adding a police force will only make it worse. This is because Baltimore residents are predominantly black, and will likely be harassed by any police force. I also wonder if police officers will start arresting students for drug-related crimes? Overall, a terrible idea. Armed police officers will make the environment worse as I feel comfortable around them even though I’m not doing anything wrong. Armed people will make campus a worse environment to traverse. (10/19/2022 10:49:02 AM) Listen to the voices of the Baltimore community, the JHU Black Student Union, and JHU faculty. Decisions must be made with the input of those most effected. (10/19/2022 10:39:05 AM) The community around Hopkins and Hopkins affiliates do not want this police force. It's time to listen to the people you claim to keep safe and put an end to the JHPD. (10/19/2022 10:39:02 AM) I feel as if you are not listening to the students and just following the money from the board of directors. I wish if this was the case you would be frank about it. I feel like the implementation of private police will just exacerbate racial tensions and divisions that are seen within Hopkins and Baltimore. (10/19/2022 10:44:51 AM) The fact that it’s taken this long to implement JHPD is saddening. The safety of JHU community members should be the university’s top priority, and there needs to be additional security other than the campus security that is unreliable at best. Please implement JHPD as soon as possible for the safety of all community members. (10/19/2022 10:48:39 AM) Instituting JHPD would severely affect the homeless population of charles village. News flash asshole, homeless people are people too. It is DIRECTLY Johns Hopkins fault for the inability to access affordable housing in Charles Village. The presence of Johns Hopkins disproportionately increases the rent in CV, the cost of food, and the cost of living. As such, it is Johns Hopkins responsibility to mitigate these effects in the community. Rather take responsibility for the homeless populations, you decide the best measure is to displace them even further? Shame on you. You make fork-tongued claims about social concern, yet can't address the same bullshit you've been pulling since the University was founded. You disgust me. (10/19/2022 10:49:57 AM) I agree with this measure (10/19/2022 3:58:43 PM) a separate police department is completely unnecessary and adds a layer of distrust between the students and the university, and it increases this distrust significantly between minority student communities and johns hopkins. (10/19/2022 10:51:29 AM) JHPD is not a solution. It will cause more more harm than good. It will make students feel even more unsafe and community members hate the Hopkins students/ community more than they already do. (10/19/2022 10:51:25 AM) I would feel less safe on and around campus if the JHPD were implemented. (10/19/2022 10:56:11 AM) A private police force would definitely not help relations between Baltimore residents and Hopkins (10/19/2022 10:53:27 AM) High number of armed robberies and carjacking in very close proximity to campus is highly concerning (10/19/2022 10:52:20 AM) The authority to police is one possessed by the government. Hopkins is not a governmental body and therefore should not have the authority to exercise deadly force, especially not against members of a community that it has exploited for centuries. Further, corruption in the BPD is so deeply rooted and longstanding that absolutely no good can come of a force that derives its power from the BPD. There is no such thing as a “progressive police force”. True progress comes from community investment. (10/19/2022 10:54:43 AM) I believe adding more guns and police to campus will not help. If you look at other institutions that have instituted campus police it has not actually helped, but increased violent interaction between cops with students or native Baltimoreans. I think a better idea would be to look at more community-oriented strategies. (10/19/2022 10:59:32 AM) I'm concerned about adding more police, especially in the wake of everyone seeing how unsafe police can be for communities. Especially Baltimore with its majority Black population is at risk with more police officers around. Accountability has not been taken for previous issues with campus security so I doubt the legitimacy of claims that the police will be held accountable. I think JHU should work with local organizations and residents surrounding its campuses because they will inevitably be affected and they deserve to actually have their voices heard. (10/19/2022 11:03:07 AM) Please Keep JHPD (10/19/2022 10:59:06 AM) I want police please it’s a good idea. (10/19/2022 10:59:15 AM) The university should support police abolition as a necessary step toward ending racism in America. Instead, President Daniels and Vice President Bard are complicit in upholding a system that actively puts Black community members at risk of targeted violence. (10/19/2022 11:03:26 AM) I don't think there has been any real effort at communicating why a private police force is necessary beyond a vague reference to public safety. It's disturbing to receive emails from Hopkins stating that they want to hear everyone's opinion— but only if you agree with them. I am curious why administration thinks the JHPD is so necessary that it's worth ignoring years of obvious disagreement from the student body, who are the exact people this police force is being implemented to protect. Every effort at communication feels performative. (10/24/2022 9:04:16 PM) I think the standard security guards are perfectly fine and they make me feel safe/looked out for. No improvement is necessary on that aspect. Adding a police force that isn’t designed to simply look out for students but rather police them (and others) will inevitably make many (including myself) feel far less safe and add a dimension of surveillance that can only serve to restrict and diminish our freedom to simply exist as college students. I consider the police force an entirely unnecessary addition to the already strong and comforting security forces around campus. I trust and respect the Hopkins security forces, I cannot say that I trust that the instituted police force would have my (not others’) best interests in mind. I will conclude by saying that the Hopkins Police Force will only serve to induce feelings of surveillance and behavioral control when a security force, especially one on a college campus, should not serve to inhibit students’ behavior on and around campus, but rather make sure they are being looked out for as they go about their lives. The legal basis and institutional legitimacy of the police force will instill feelings of fear that are inhibitory to the college experience. (10/19/2022 11:17:14 AM) Safety for JHU affiliates and the reduction of crime is more important than abstract or historical concerns about the validity of police departments. (10/19/2022 11:09:24 AM) The police force is a band-aid. Responsible implementation of the JHPD does not merely require approval from the students and community members, but also efforts to combat the socioeconomic conditions that drive people to commit crimes in the areas surrounding campus. (10/19/2022 11:10:02 AM) Don’t listen to all the students having an extreme emotional response. Do the right thing to protect everyone around campus. (10/19/2022 11:09:08 AM) I know that there is a vocal concern on the JHU campus from students about the JHPD and with many stories of police abusing their power students have a right to be concerned. However, with the striking number of concerning criminal activity around Homewood as of late (i.e. the random apartment break-in a month ago, the recent abduction north of Homewood, and other gunpoint robberies) I think the JHPD is seriously needed. The Medcampus is in definite need of more police resources and these recent incidents around Homewood also highlight that need around Homewood campus. I know increased policing will not solve these issues long term, but in the sort term I do believe the JHPD will help provide better safety than the current security (which will witness crimes but do nothing). By providing a police accountability board, I do think that JHU will be able to better control/train their JHPD forces to actually "protect and serve" rather than abuse power/follow racist ideals. I know police can be concerning/unpleasant for some, but something has to be done in the immediate future to help protect students and faculty from the continual criminal activity that has increasingly been encroaching onto Homewood and the other JHU campuses. (10/27/2022 8:35:13 PM) I think it’s kind of weird how there are no HopCops next to Homewood Apartments which is next to a 24 hour 7-11 as there tends to be a large number of people who beg for money/food. I have had numerous friends who walk back to their dorm on campus from Homewood Apartments say that they were harassed and were unwantedly touched by these people, so I don’t understand why Sophomore housing has a dorm that is not protected by Hopkins security and does not protect students from these events occurring (10/19/2022 11:14:05 AM) literally everyone has said they don't want a private police force I don't understand why they're still going through with it (10/19/2022 11:16:41 AM) I feel like it doesn’t really matter what I or the student body says, admin will do what they want so that’s what I expect to happen. (10/19/2022 11:30:31 AM) I haven’t personally seen the data but a lot of people think that this police force is going to negatively affect the black and brown populations near campus. I hope that people like Bard have considered this data and weighed it against the potential benefits of the police force. If they haven’t, then they should. (10/19/2022 11:35:06 AM) The armed robbery at the CVS was alarming. There are people who smoke, dress badly, and generally give non-trustworthy vibes on and near campus once in a while. I have not had any other experiences that made me feel unsafe. I am opposed to firearms, perhaps security can have tasers and pepper spray. (10/19/2022 11:39:31 AM) I know there are pressures put on JHPD because the recent tension between the police force and races. However, please put the safety of our students over the political opinions and provide us a reasonable sense of safety near campus. (10/19/2022 11:42:30 AM) No Hop Cops (10/19/2022 11:43:00 AM) Our campus has had a number of incidents in the past year. Rather than allowing some students to boil it down to "just a few students being affected," please consider each of these incidents as a human being having their life impacted negatively. Improving public safety around campus could help mitigate these issues. (10/19/2022 11:46:41 AM) The patrol area does not extend to almost anything that isn’t JHU property and there are almost never problems on school property. So, I don’t get the point. (10/19/2022 11:48:45 AM) I am begging you all not to implement JHPD. This will have terrible ramifications not only for Black/Latino students, but also the surrounding community, which Hopkins already has a rocky relationship with. It has been proven time and time again that such measures do not make students more safe, and instead make them feel either less safe or more surveilled. If JHU as an institution cares about race relations and the well-being of its students, JHPD should not be put in place. (10/19/2022 11:50:33 AM) Have you not learned anything from the previous protests and recent BLM movements on police violence ? Implementing this signs away the lives of students. (10/19/2022 11:49:52 AM) Hopkins has a huge POC community. There is evidence of race bias from the police. I want to feel safe walking around my campus at night knowing that I dont have to feel threatened by the police who will automatically be suspicious of me due to my skin color. There is no place for armed police force on this campus. There are too many lives at risk when you arm policemen who discriminate based on color. This is unacceptable. I do not feel safe and will not feel safe around policemen who might endanger my life just based on how I look. I am against JHPD (10/19/2022 11:54:39 AM) The decision to implement JHPD is one of complete negligence and disregard for the voices of Hopkins students, staff, and community members. Time and time again we have clearly expressed opposition to the police force due to legitimate concerns about the safety and security of racial and ethnic minority students and staff. These concerns have not been alleviated but instead have largely increased due to the behaviors and response, or rather the lack of response, from the administration and BPD. Delaying the decision for 2 years, only to continue full force with JHPD, was a completely performative act and has displayed the true biased and discriminatory nature of this administration. To the predominantly white administration: LISTEN TO YOUR STUDENTS, STAFF, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS. WE DO NOT NEED OR WANT JHPD. (10/19/2022 3:05:26 PM) If there is no choice but to implement the JH PD, please mandate that the police must not have weapons on their person when there is no active serious threat. I would feel extremely unsafe to see police who always have weapons on them. (10/19/2022 12:02:40 PM) Free speech only in the context you want it is hardly free speech at all. Forcing a memorandum of understanding before the student body has voiced their opinions on whether or not a MOU should exist at all is effectively giving up your claim of supporting an open discourse. If you want students to back down, first take a step back yourself. (10/19/2022 12:06:47 PM) n/a (10/19/2022 12:01:23 PM) Implementing JHPD is the worst idea proposed at Hopkins in the last 50 years. (10/19/2022 12:02:09 PM) There is a silent majority of students who are neutral or supportive of your decision, and they are being overshadowed by the more outspoken protestors. (10/19/2022 12:06:52 PM) I’d feel safer i suppose, but i wouldn’t want it if it made too many others feel unsafe as i already feel very safe anyway. (10/19/2022 12:09:03 PM) I am a minority who has had more than my fair share of police targeting me for other reason than my race. I have never been in a situation where police presence has made me feel safer, thus I don't want anything to do with a school that has a private police force. (10/19/2022 12:16:32 PM) I am on board with the JHPD as long as they are properly trained and have strict protocols in place for misconduct. (10/19/2022 12:14:21 PM) My main concern is that JHPD officers will be armed and authorized to use force if they deem it necessary. I do not feel comfortable being around people with guns, even if they are legally allowed to have them, and are trained to use them only if necessary. I am worried that my everyday actions, or those of other people on campus, could be misinterpreted by JHPD officers and result in the unjustified use of force, or even just an aggressive confrontation that could be very upsetting. (10/19/2022 12:42:22 PM) This university does not need to employ and run it's own private police force (10/19/2022 12:37:45 PM) More police presence will not make me feel safer, nor will it help any Baltimore residents feel safer. (10/19/2022 12:39:22 PM) Do not listen to the protestors, the silent majority at Hopkins wants the JHPD and wants safety at JHU to improve. Policing works, do not let people pitch over convoluted solutions to crime that only waste time and money. (10/19/2022 12:50:01 PM) Police do not make me or other students, especially students of color or from minority backgrounds, feel safe. They do not prevent crime, they respond after it has occurred. Many students and their families have had negative experiences with police. Police has continually proven to be disrespectful to people from minority backgrounds by targeting us and not taking us seriously when we report crime. When we see Baltimore city police officers around campus our first thought is to avoid them. They are often standoffish and we do not see them as people we can go to when we need help. On the other hand, the current security guards around campus do their job well and are friendly to students. Having more of them around would help to increase safety around campus better than having police everywhere. In areas where there are a lot of police, they tend to target residents and make them feel unsafe. They see the people they are supposed to protect as suspects instead of as a community. In this case, they would make students feel unsafe and target them. They abuse their power and it would only be a matter of time until they start harassing students and being aggressive to them. The last thing us students want to see around campus is police everywhere bothering everyone while we are going to class or walking with our friends. We do not want to be harassed or questioned while walking around. Police do not make us feel safe, they are an authoritarian force that tries to subjugate the people they are supposed to protect. (10/19/2022 1:08:06 PM) I think it's important to keep in mind that there are many situations in which a police force worsen or escalate a situation. Students at Hopkins come from all kinds of places and arrive with a wide variety of experiences. Students of color, especially Black students, are still a minority here and if their voice is not heard in this matter, our administration is blatantly ignoring the experiences of its minority students. All kinds of people here object to this movement. Many of us are scared, please acknowledge that before spending money to establish a measure we did not want. (10/19/2022 1:07:45 PM) Funding private police is poorly considered and far less effective than supporting improvements and even funding the already established, government-funded Baltimore Police Department. Creating another privately-funded police department does not help the social disparities already created by an incompetent police force. (10/19/2022 1:00:12 PM) While I recognize the challenges of the police forces around the country and the their ill treatment of minorities this is not the case for the JHPD whom have been fair and only supportive of our students and faculty. I am also a minority but I urge you to PLEASE keep the JHPD and increase their range and capabilities. I feel they are too limited in their capacity to help. Thank you (10/19/2022 1:05:49 PM) I think a rundown of everything the JHPD will do and what their jurisdiction is. (10/19/2022 1:04:17 PM) Listen to your Black students and student orgs! Why are you not??? (10/19/2022 1:08:04 PM) Would like to hear what concrete policies will be in place to make sure JHPD handles race relations and sexual assult/ harassment cases justly and equitably, but I do support JHPD (10/19/2022 1:10:50 PM) N/A (10/23/2022 12:26:29 AM) If the arresting and attacking students that are desparetely trying to stop you and then covering it up and waiting for them to leave so you can implement a private police force isn't fascism, then I don't know what it (10/19/2022 1:10:43 PM) Implementing JHPD is NOT something most of the JHU community wants. Not only will implementing JHPD hurt JHU students and affiliates but it also hurts the community of Baltimore. I urge you to rethink your decision concerning JHPD and think about what the community really wants and deserves. (10/19/2022 1:17:00 PM) I don’t think private police would make me feel more safe; in fact if they are armed, I’d feel less safe. (10/19/2022 1:16:37 PM) police presence make students, especially those from marginalized identities, feel less safe. it's obvious that the only people this is for are the affluent white students in our community. (10/19/2022 1:31:08 PM) Do better. (10/19/2022 1:34:01 PM) Listen to your teachers and students of color, who are telling you that they feel significantly LESS SAFE, if not actively endangered, by an increased police presence on and around campus. You are not ensuring their physical safety; just the opposite, you are putting people at risk of not only physical danger, but also the emotional burden of constantly fearing for their safety under a system they know better than to trust. (10/19/2022 1:46:59 PM) Personally, I do not feel safer around police officers, and I know that many Black students and faculty members feel unsafe. Additionally, police officers do not help those who have already been affected by a crime, and the university should focus on supporting those people. I think efforts to directly support students, such as the recent establishment of a crisis team, are steps in the right direction, and public safety should be approached in a similar way. (10/19/2022 2:10:39 PM) Armed private police forces without real accountability subvert the universities nonprofit mission as schools & hospitals, with a direct path to harm for marginalized students and residents is (profiling, surveillance, shooting). The lack of transparency and openness to suggestion that has already been demonstrated in the town halls is a terrifying indicator of the threats to come. When the public loudly and clearly voiced their disapproval of JHPD at the MOU town hall, which was advertised as an opportunity for community input, it was moved online with questions being selected by a moderator. In response to the 2020 protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd, JHU took performative action, delaying the implementation of JHPD for two years. This is particularly sickening because it is a recognition of the injustice of policing, but only temporarily, in hopes that the public would over time become less angry or less passionate. Since the process has started up again, the university has continued to demonstrate absolutely no concern for the wants of the community beyond performative appeasement--the question that JHU is asking is not whether the community wants or consents to a police force, but rather, how it can be implemented without harming JHU's public image as an "equitable institution." As a private institution funded by the students' tuition, the university is obligated to listen to the will of the students, who have made it abundantly clear that we are against JHPD and the threats it poses to us and our neighbors. (10/19/2022 3:12:15 PM) students get robbed on campus or near saint paul even though we have security guards anyway, hiring another "police department" wont change anything because baltimore is fucked (10/19/2022 2:16:45 PM) A full-blown private police force on a college campus, to me, would make the environment feel more militarized than what I'm comfortable with. I have had issues with abusive authorities in the past who used their power to be pretty awful towards me (they were just teachers, but it just goes to show what a little bit of power can do to someone), so the idea of a full blown private police force does not sit well with me. I don't particularly wish to be harassed by police officers when doing something like... walking to class. I understand there would be some kind of regulation to prevent this, but often times those regulations are not enforced. (10/19/2022 2:14:47 PM) I would like to understand how you, the administrators, benefit from this even after years of protests and countless concerned voices telling you that the students do not want this. Maybe invest your money into working with the community or supporting current safety instead of hiring these historically corrupt Baltimore police. (10/19/2022 2:26:01 PM) Very concerning about the number of armed muggings and robberies there have been recently so close to (and even on) campus. The most recent one that occurred in the middle of the day on the campus walking trails is most concerning: it feels like we can’t even walk alone or around during the day without fear. (10/19/2022 2:20:23 PM) The implementation of an armed JHPD force presents more downsides, such as potential racial profiling of students and community members and excessive use of force, than benefits, such as potential slight reductions in already low crime rates. (10/19/2022 2:35:51 PM) Why do we need police on top of the Baltimore Police? What is more police going to do to guarantee safety? How will you ensure that the minority population are not discriminated by the police? How is calling the JHPD different from calling Baltimore police? "WHEREAS, the police officers of the JHPD will be trained in current law enforcement techniques and are or will be completing a course of training..." The above statement is taken from the MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. It does not provide any sense of relief since the current techniques play into systematic racism and will lead to more people of color being discriminated against and attacked - a form of modern day lynching. That is not something JHU should be apart of and there is no way to accurately screen police officers for ounces of racism and skin tone biases as shown by the basic principles of research studies. (10/19/2022 2:33:50 PM) N/A. (10/19/2022 2:52:07 PM) I am concerned about abuse of power that will ultimately come from more policing. Furhtermore I want to know how the police force is going to be involved with the community they are supposed be protecting OUTSIDE of their policing. Knowing the people in your community will lead to higher trust and lower arrests and brutality because the community and the police will feel safe with one another. (10/19/2022 3:03:09 PM) I understand that many suburban parents across the country feel unsafe with their students at school in a city with a reputation for crime. Security officers who are unarmed provide the same amount of safety as an armed police department without the added harm of potential errors of police bias leading to student harm. Undoubtedly, these officers will carry biases with them that cannot be "trained out" and will lead to student harm. (10/19/2022 3:09:16 PM) I believe that the approach the university has taken to roll out this JHPD plan has been devoid of clear and direct communication and education of what the university plans to do, why we need this JHPD now, and what the university will do to protect students that undoubtedly will be targeted disproportionately by this JHPD. (10/19/2022 3:44:01 PM) There is evidence that in high schools, the presence of campus police reduces graduation rates and the rate of college attendance. It's possible campus police could have a similar effect on college students. (10/19/2022 3:28:41 PM) I would like to understand why some students oppose the establishment of a JHU police department. I don’t see any disadvantages to it. (10/19/2022 3:44:13 PM) I know that many of my peers are vehemently against installing a police force for reasons relating to social justice. However, I feel that the benefits of a police force would outweigh its drawbacks. Crime is so commonplace that living in an off-campus apartment does not make me feel safe, especially living on the first floor. There are regularly home invasions, burglaries, muggings, and robberies. I think that the safety of the students and faculty of Hopkins should come first, because without a police force, everyone is in danger of being targeted. (10/19/2022 3:51:43 PM) They don’t give a shit about us. And they don’t give a shit about nothing we say. President Daniel’s literally don’t give a fuck. His head is so far up his ass he can’t see the thin line between corruption and black students here and black civilians in the surrounding community. He can’t even check his white privilege. (10/19/2022 3:54:12 PM) Academic environments should not be policed. Leave the Baltimore community alone! (10/19/2022 4:04:23 PM) Research shows that increasing funding towards police does not prevent crime, so it is important that we don't turn to JHPD if we feel unsafe. The history and continued relationship between the police and minority communities, especially Black, brown, LGBTQ, and disabled people, should be taken into account. Police will not make campus safer; it will endanger students and staff. (10/19/2022 4:38:50 PM) I believe campus police is necessary and the protestors' opinions are solely based on subjective assumptions, which is completely prejudiced. Their refusal to have productive conversations is very unfortunate and unreasonable. I think JHPD should be implemented as soon as possible, if not immediately. JHPD has my full support. (10/19/2022 5:35:00 PM) My only concerns with the police force are transparency and mental health training. Non-Hopkins affiliated people live and work in this area, so the creation of a Hopkins police force affects them as well. I would hope that JHPD would be transparent with Hopkins students and the community of Baltimore. I am also concerned with the mental health of not just students but also the mental health of people in the Hopkins area. I hope that the officers will have training on how to properly handle mental health situations and also mental health resources available not only to students but also to community members around Hopkins (10/19/2022 6:09:46 PM) I’m tired of only going from my apartment to classes and back, because it’s too unsafe for me to go anywhere else. It’s very isolating and depressing. I really think students’ safety should be a MUCH bigger priority. The rate at which I received public safety emails last semester (one or more times a week) was extremely upsetting and made me feel very uncomfortable. I also noted that campus security never seemed involved and I don’t think they seem capable of keeping students safe. I have also been involved in some very unsettling and unsafe situations just trying to get to class or get food on St. Paul st. It should not be this bad. It’s unacceptable. I fully support a JHPD. I’m sorry some students feel uncomfortable with a JHPD, but I think we can make sure that the presence of the JHPD would not cause any harm to any students by screening which individuals are recruited. (10/19/2022 8:09:06 PM) The world is getting worse, I see why people are against it but I think it’s necessary :( (10/19/2022 8:16:58 PM) Fully Support the implementation of the JHPD as security incidents are happening almost daily. I didn’t realize how dangerous the surrounding environment is until my friend was involved in the incidents and the CVS store under my apartments got robbed at gun point . (10/19/2022 8:26:15 PM) I am fully supportive of this (10/19/2022 8:23:16 PM) My concern is my safety around the Hopkins campus. With the insane frequency of burglary, robbery, and assault, I am astounded that the Hopkins PD is still not implemented. I mean, do you even care about student safety? Do you want us to get robbed and assaulted? (10/19/2022 9:56:49 PM) I would really like armed police force. There is no danger in having armed police, but rather a safer school. (10/19/2022 8:54:29 PM) I am concerned that the voice of a few who are against the campus pd will overpower the voice of those who are in favor. Many parents in the the Johns Hopkins parent group on Facebook are also in favor of the campus pd. (10/19/2022 9:08:44 PM) I would be interested in the cost-benefits of the JHU police department. Would having police make a large impact when there are already security officers all across campus? Hopkins has already put over $6M towards new community policing and safety measures in advance of fully implementing JHPD. When tuition, housing, dining, and related costs are over $80,000 for one year of school, Hopkins should be looking for ways to cut expenditures and tuition rather than splurge on new projects from a new student center (which seems rather unneeded, though that is an unrelated point) to JHPD. That $6M could have instead bean a $1000 tuition decrease for all students. Of course, safety is very important and cannot easily have a price tag, but there ought to be very substantial increases in safety and the like expected from JHPD if Hopkins will be increasing its spending. (10/19/2022 10:42:58 PM) Listen to the needs of your community, not the needs of capital and wealthy donors. I feel safe in my neighborhood. I trust this community. I do not feel safe around the police. Expanding your security apparatus will create a hostile environment for your students, especially students of color. (10/19/2022 11:17:55 PM) Please use what I mentioned above. Thank you. (10/20/2022 7:50:27 PM) The police as an institution are deeply flawed. I'm not saying that security forces are inherently bad, but as things stand currently, adding police to Johns Hopkins University would simply serve to make the campus more unsafe for already marginalized portions of the student body. Even if the police force were made up of the so-called "good ones," which I find incredibly doubtful, they're still part of an institution that is deeply militant and unfairly targets certain parts of the population. When it comes to implementing a police force, there is no winning. Safety will not be improved. (10/19/2022 11:40:54 PM) we need jhu police back (10/19/2022 11:42:26 PM) n/a (10/19/2022 11:53:36 PM) How could police ON campus help if crimes are happening OFF campus? (10/20/2022 1:22:35 AM) If we already have a current security system, I don’t think adding a police force/over policing is going to be helpful. I think it’s better to just improve current security a little and invest the money in the surrounding community/programs that could address the root causes of crime (10/20/2022 12:29:16 PM) This survey is clearly biased and it's a shame that SGA is using its power to move this survey instead of actually working to keep students safe (ESPECIALLY Black and brown and disabled and queer students who will be disproportionately harmed by the implementation of a police force.) (10/20/2022 12:59:53 PM) Having a new armed force on JHU that is unfamiliar with the students could cause a lot of issues regarding violence and racial profiling. (10/20/2022 3:35:27 PM) It is not fair for Johns Hopkins to impose a private police force on the Baltimore community. The majority Black city that is going to be harassed and targeted by this decision. They have no say in the matter. This city belongs to Baltimoreans not Hopkins implants who don’t know basic city living. Branville Bard is a Black man being used as the face for this movement so that administrations like president Daniels can justify their actions. As a Black student, it doesn’t feel like administration really cares about us or our experience on campus. I don’t want to pass officers with guns on my way to class. This is not the way. (10/20/2022 4:08:20 PM) I completely support the implementation of a JHU police force and hope that administration carries out this plan. (10/25/2022 4:37:07 PM) In the town halls that took place, I think it says a lot that there were more people present that were strongly against the police force than there were people in support of it, to the point that they were able to be disrupted. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the means, I find it deeply concerning that the response to this fails to acknowledge that a sizeable portion of the student body does not want this force and instead judges the character of these individuals. Some of the dissenters have witnessed police violence firsthand, and are justified in their distress that plans keep moving forward, despite their repeated protest and no matter how "qualified" the force will be. No organization in the student body that I know of has expressed support for the force, and many have expressed dissent. Please listen to the student body majority and the community; not doing so is ignoring the responsibility to those keeping JHU alive and to the people that have had a troubled past with this institution. (10/20/2022 4:58:27 PM) Right now, I feel extremely unsafe whether we stick with this current security system or move to the JHPD. The current security system is full of uncompassionate staff who treat disabled students poorly and engages in extensive victim-blaming to the people that it purports to help. In addition, it is incredibly insulting that JHU would continue with this police department plan especially two years after George Floyd's death. The use of body cameras does not seem to prevent racial profiling given that plenty of corrupt police have turned their cops off. I am also highly concerned that a private police force will basically be just as effective as a police union in preventing any changes to its existence. The establishment of a JHPD will simply increase the gap between Hopkins and the community and worsen long-term relations for an ultimately ineffective solution that will waste donor money when we could use it to more fruitful pursuits. Neither solution addresses a major root of current crisis: the significant presence of panhandlers and chasers on St. Paul St between E. 22nd and E. 30th that prevents people like me from going out to get meals or groceries alone. (10/20/2022 5:58:37 PM) Policing the greater Baltimore community will only further damage the already fraught relationship between the Hopkins community and other Baltimore residents. Do not do more harm. (10/20/2022 7:25:45 PM) I think that broader Baltimore community opinions on private police matter more than jhu affiliate opinions do for many reasons including: While a lot of us are gone during break, they are here all year so will have to interact with private police more frequently. Non-jhu affiliates are far more likely to experience abuse at the hands of private police than affiliates are for various class/race/perception reasons. Most students are not as familiar with Baltimore and its history with law enforcement as the broader Baltimore community is. The BPD is historically very corrupt, and despite promises made, the private police and the BPD are clearly inextricably tied together. Community input takes this history into account. While JHU pretends to take affiliate opinions into account (and frankly fails to even do that considering the affiliation backlash against this initiative), they do not really take any community input into account. Johns Hopkins has a history of upholding racism and classism in Baltimore, and this initiative, if followed through, will only contribute to that. We need to start working towards community with the city if we actually want to see increased safety in our neighborhoods. (10/20/2022 7:58:05 PM) This is anti-black (10/20/2022 8:16:40 PM) Honestly the JHPD makes me embarrassed to be a Hopkins student. The disrespect they have demonstrated not only for the hopkins community but Baltimore is utterly appalling. I feel like they waited to do this until the people who occupied garland hall left, but I think they’ll find people are not scared to do that again. (10/20/2022 8:50:37 PM) N/A (10/20/2022 10:22:30 PM) The JHPD would make me feel less safe on campus (10/21/2022 1:06:21 AM) I truly see no need for a private armed police force and believe it would do more harm than good. A smidgen of heightened sense of safety for certain demographics is not worth the harm overpolicing would pose for others. The issues in the surrounding community that are driving Hopkins to want to institute this police force could be more effectively and humanely addressed by investing into the community in other ways. Overpolicing has never been the answer. (10/21/2022 1:51:41 AM) The frequency of alerts about crime in the area is often concerning. While I recognize the concerns some members of the student body have concerning the creation of a police force, I believe the safety of our larger student body should be the highest priority. (10/21/2022 12:25:23 PM) I hope JHU will give the food service workers more consideration regarding the ongoing union negotiations. (10/21/2022 2:35:44 PM) Police officers have never made me feel comfortable, and I certainly would not feel comfortable if I saw them in and around campus all the time, hired and encouraged by the university. (10/21/2022 4:30:05 PM) There are many kids who already feel alienated by people in power/police officers and would never feel comfortable or safe enough to actually go to an officer with a problem. We see this everyday, bringing in police officers just adds more anxiety to those students. It is unfair and wrong to say you will provide an inclusive campus where our voices will be heard, then completely ignore the countless students who tell you they feel unsafe. (10/26/2022 10:52:04 AM) Although the implementation of a campus police presence may seem like the right way to keep students and faculty safe, it is in fact a point of stress and fear for many, especially students of color. Police have an obviously unsavory history (and current reality) in the United States so choosing to bring that presence to the campus will create unwanted fear. Students deserve to not only feel physically safe, but emotionally safe as well. (10/21/2022 6:19:02 PM) The money going towards funding the JHPD can be much better spent on policies and programs that actually help the local community and focus on preventing the crimes that the the JHPD will supposedly react to. It makes no sense to punish people for crimes with money when we have the means to use that money to prevent them from feeling desperate enough to feel like they need to commit crimes in the first place. (10/21/2022 7:59:12 PM) The implementation of a police force is counterproductive, and against the wishes of the student body. Students like me are fearful of being on a campus with armed policemen and find it utterly unnecessary (10/22/2022 1:04:11 AM) I've had my belongings stolen from practice rooms before, and when I requested to view security cameras on the Plaza level practice rooms, I was informed that it doesn't exist. There is also no record of people who use the rooms, despite having to swipe our J-cards every time we enter. I think this is potentially dangerous in the event of a larger crime. (10/22/2022 1:39:22 AM) Keep the police or it will look extremely bad on the authorities of the school. People protest them out of emotion (10/22/2022 8:23:42 AM) Having armed police officers on campus will only raise tensions and unnecessarily escalate conflicts. Neighborhoods around Hopkins are already over-policed and having a private police force will foster further mistrust of Hopkins as an institution with community members. Hopkins' resources should instead be focused on community-based efforts that mitigate factors that lead to crime, such as poverty, unsuitable housing, food insecurity, etc. For an institution so heavily focused on public health, this doesn't seem like an intervention centered around the public health approach. (10/22/2022 1:09:08 PM) There is a lot of push back from a lot of different parties and already a lot of mistrust in policing nowadays especially in Baltimore so be careful, sensitive, and compassionate. (10/22/2022 2:42:27 PM) I find it hard to imagine a security force that doesn’t have access to guns and can successfully deter criminal activity/robberies at jhu. (10/22/2022 2:50:46 PM) I completely support JHPD (10/22/2022 10:19:23 PM) I want to hear from the janitors, security guards, cooks and service workers around campus. I want to know how they feel about the schools safety and if the measures are necessary. They know better than the student body. (10/23/2022 2:12:10 PM) A silent majority of the Hopkins student body supports the JHPD. Please do not waver in your implementation of the initiative. (10/23/2022 6:47:32 PM) The implementation of a private police force will not help the issues at hand, police are reactionary, they will only be called after an incident has occured, they do not solve the issue which is crime, the robberies and threats. I think Hopkins could spend the money they are interested in investing into the police force into the surrounding community, allowing workers to unionize, having livable wages for all of their employees, not displacing residents for construction projects, and investing into the baltimore youth and education system to create long lasting, sustainable change. There is also extreme ethical concerns of police and their history of excessive force, racial profiling, and mistreatment of people in general. There are significant racial disparities in lower level crimes and arrests. (10/24/2022 5:13:51 PM) How can admin ensure that increasing police presence won't have adverse outcomes for Black students/affiliates at Hopkins? What will they do if there is adverse outcomes? (10/24/2022 5:14:25 PM) The MOU requires support from constituents and community members. Protests, letters, petitions, forums, etc have demonstrated that opposition to the JHPD is overwhelming and far surpasses support. Please listen to people and cancel the JHPD now (10/24/2022 5:37:26 PM) Being one of few black males on campus is uninviting enough. Being profiled by a new JHPD would only further detract from my (and other black males’) experience on this campus. (10/24/2022 5:43:38 PM) It is a real shame that despite the consistent pushback on the JHPD, the administration has made little effort to genuinely hear the opinions of students for the past 4+ years since this was proposed. Black and brown students have expressed our lack of support for JHPD multiple times citing our own safety and livelihoods, and those of the greater Baltimore community. Almost every "attempt" by the administration to listen to us has been performative. (10/24/2022 6:06:33 PM) The Hopkins security must be more active in securing the vicinity around JHU. I believe there should be some sort of security force with more training and equipped with tools for at the very least non-lethal force that are committed to keeping the areas surrounding JHU safe. I still remember when in the last academic year, the 7-11 convenience store on Charles Street, which is right next to JHU property, got robbed twice in the same week, in broad daylight, with a semi-automatic weapon. Current security obviously can't do anything against criminals with firearms, which is the common denominator in most if not all crimes committed against affiliates and non affiliates. As an undergraduate, I believe the violent protests against the police force at the town hall should not have happened, even though many, many students believe disturbing the peace was necessary or even the right thing to do. As someone who 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦, I am not worried that it will happen at all, since I know Hopkins is committed to not letting that happen. I feel more unsafe knowing that violent protestors, who believe violence is the right thing to do against and idea that they disagree with, attend this institution than if there weren't security at all around Hopkins. Whatever happened to open and peaceful discourse among the student body? That simply doesn't exist when it comes to multi-faceted issues that people distort and wrongly reduce into a simple 'one majority group' vs. 'minority group', 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 considering other equally important points of the issue. Students who resort to violence and harassment are the ones that make me feel unsafe at Hopkins, much more that having a private police force ever would. I appreciate you taking the time to read my concerns. Thank you. (10/24/2022 8:54:43 PM) I would like to gain more resources to be better informed of the negative impacts the JHUPD will have on campus. Is discrimination going to rise if it is implemented? (10/24/2022 9:01:41 PM) There seems to be no need for JHPD. I've seen what a group of officers on campus looks like and it's a true reflection of "follow the leader". I found this out the day a pedestrian came onto campus to harass students and the squad of police were more than ineffective. They only had stares, confusion, and a reluctance to do anything efficient to solve the situation. This example is why the idea of having JHPD is more unnerving than calming. (10/24/2022 9:06:39 PM) N/a (10/24/2022 9:11:51 PM) President Daniels and the others in power need to do better. Allowing for open communication between the students and admin is important, and they also need to really educate themselves on the actual implications of having police on campus. They need to have black people on the advisory board, because clearly that team is not diverse enough if they think having JHPD is the best option. Do better and be fr. (10/24/2022 10:20:37 PM) Expanding the police force is not a good idea, and statistics will back me up on this. That money could be invested in the poverty crisis in Baltimore instead, and in doing so, crime could actually decrease. (10/25/2022 2:38:29 AM) Introducing guns to a college campus will make students who are people of color feel unsafe and their feelings should matter to administration because they are JHU students too. (10/25/2022 9:53:17 AM) I feel rather unsafe around campus after yesterday's abduction of an affiliate, but my parents are terrified. I can no longer comfortably walk along the beautiful west side of campus due to the armed robberies. I dropped a PILOT course because I felt too afraid to walk home alone at 10 pm. (10/25/2022 7:00:35 PM) -no cops or off-duty cops on or near campus and other university property. -do not allow JHU security to share information with or collaborate in any way with Baltimore Police Department. -an expansive and well-funded mental health crisis emergency response that does not involve any police or security. The mental health crisis response should not involve anyone with a gun, arrest powers, nor assault powers. -provide and lobby for substantial funding for improved housing and food security in low- income neighborhoods surrounding all JHU properties and beyond. -Funding for police, surveillance, and arrest powers does not create conditions of real safety for low-income Black communities and other marginalized people. This is the basic consensus among anyone who studies systemic and institutional racism, which you willfully choose to ignore. (10/26/2022 12:34:43 AM) There have been too many recent incidents of robberies and affiliates being threatened and/or beaten in the streets. One of my closest friends at Hopkins has also been recently threatened by a homeless man with a knife after he didn’t have change to offer him. This event occurred right in front of Döner Bros where an abundance of students travel. I have become extremely concerned for my and friends safety here, even in locations once thought to be the “safe areas” near campus. If real action isn’t taken to prevent such crimes from occurring near and to students, then many students have already discussed carrying weapons of our own in order to safeguard our personal safety. Even our parents have begun to encourage us to consider carrying some type of protection. To avoid making this situation much worse than it already is, please put more resources towards actually catching the criminals, as the unsolved pubic safety advisory emails only serve to increase our fear. (10/26/2022 11:01:34 AM) I think it would be helpful if there was a clear outline in what JHPD would do and be responsible for and to know how they will be held accountable. If this info has already been sent out, clearly, not many students have found it. (10/27/2022 8:43:02 AM) I don’t think policing and already over-policed community would be beneficial to Baltimore or Hopkins students. (10/26/2022 10:48:42 AM) Johns Hopkins has an obligation to not implement a police force for its campuses when there is no way to truly guarantee it will not participate in discrimination in which both the university and policing are historically entrenched and currently contextualized. The mechanisms through which police enforce power are both subtle and expansive with real, negative consequences for the individuals they subject to this power. Even the threat of their existence is harmful. Some individuals are in support, regardless of their likelihood to be harmed. That is not sufficient reasoning to justify a police department when we have evidence it will become a harmful organization, and one created by the university at that. Please do not use spend any more money or time to push this forward. (10/26/2022 11:11:48 AM) I thank you for your concern for the safety of the people on campus. It is difficult to navigate through the noise. (10/31/2022 12:03:49 AM) Adding more police won't solve the deep, longstanding problems that lead to crime, whether it's university police or municipal police (10/26/2022 11:32:08 AM) NA (10/26/2022 10:46:36 AM) While the intention here may be to protect students, there still seems to be little concern paid to black students on campus who feel unsafe around police and have been historically profiled by professors, fellow students, and campus security as trespassers and outright criminals. What happens when a person of color on campus is stereotyped and profiled by an officer who has the university-sanctioned power to inflict bodily harm in order to alleviate the "threat" they pose. (10/26/2022 10:54:31 AM) JHU Police will do nothing beside making the students feel unsafe. (10/26/2022 10:50:21 AM) I just want to be able to feel safe walking around my own campus. I feel that as a student, I deserve the peace of mind of being able to walk back to my dorm room without the fear of being kidnapped or robbed. I want to be able to return to my family without having to tell them if any gruesome incident I had at this university. I don’t think we deserve to be ranked seventh in this nation I’d we can’t do something as simple as protect our students safety (10/26/2022 11:05:59 AM) You're going to implement the police anyway, but I just want them to be held accountable and for everybody to feel safe on campus, from crime and from police. Make them sources of safety, not anxiety. (10/26/2022 10:56:04 AM) It seems recently there has been an uptick of crime closer to campus. A police force may help serve to deter this. However, making sure that the rest of Baltimore community isn’t alienated is paramount. And ethical behavior within a police force needs to be enforced. (10/26/2022 11:00:19 AM) The armed robbery and borderline kidnapping that occurred October 24th cannot be allowed to happen so close to campus. It is embarrassing and leaves students in extreme fear because 95% of them walk that distance away from campus or live in areas where they’re being held at gun point. (10/26/2022 10:59:00 AM) Campus police was initially developed as a way to wall off college campuses from black neighborhoods: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/06/02/racist-roots-campus-policing/ With the prominence of police-related violence against Black and Brown students on campus, as well as the discriminatory nature of police in a predominantly Black neighborhood, I would be totally against JHPD, as someone with Black and Brown friends. (10/26/2022 11:06:46 AM) I am incredibly concerned about safety around campus. These what seems like weekly armed robberies, kidnappings, car jackings are absolutely unacceptable. I don’t even mention what’s happened to my parents because I know they’ll worry too much. This is a top institution in the world, there has to be a way to protect students, employees, and the surrounding area of campus without putting immigrant students at risk (affiliation with ice, etc). Proper racial sensitivity training MUST be implemented as well. (10/26/2022 11:05:07 AM) You lack public support. This is my money. I don’t consent to it being spent on a private police force. I would like it to be spent on higher quality instruction instead: you know, the thing a school is supposed to do. (10/26/2022 11:05:47 AM) Please listen to the students especially black students who are most affected. (10/26/2022 11:05:35 AM) We need more police presence. It's unacceptable for us to have so much crime in the surrounding blocks of campus in broad daylight. (10/26/2022 11:08:34 AM) There should be more security guards at every single area on and around campus who are actively looking out for suspicious individuals. We are getting email notifications every day of robberies and assaults, and it seems as though the incidents are getting worse. The other day, a random man was able to walk into a girls' suite in Charles Commons, and recently, a JHU affiliate was struck and forced into a car. Both of these events could have ended even more badly than what (fortunately) had happened. Is Hopkins waiting for a student or JHU affiliate to be severely harmed before taking any actual initiative to protect everyone's safety? Because that is what it seems like. Also, sometimes walking alone or walking at night is unavoidable for students, so JHU should make it a priority to take this seriously and make sure that no JHU affiliate ever feels uncomfortable or is harassed or harmed. The incidents that have occurred are unacceptable and should have never have happened. It is JHU's responsibility to ensure the safety of all of their students and affiliates. (10/26/2022 11:23:16 AM) Can we put more effort in determining alternative ways to make the campus safer? (10/26/2022 11:19:19 AM) We do not need a police force on campus. (10/26/2022 11:13:01 AM) There are more robbery, threats happening recently in off campus locations near Homewood (St.Paul, University Parkway). (10/26/2022 11:50:37 AM) An affiliate literally got kidnapped and robbed and you guys didn’t do anything more than send out an email. (10/26/2022 11:34:43 AM) I can deal robbing but getting kidnapped is different. (10/26/2022 11:42:41 AM) Assuming the implementation of a police force will be very expensive, why doesn't the university pledge more money towards helping students financially or supporting departmental research instead of creating a police force that will mostly be for show. (10/26/2022 11:44:27 AM) There must be accountability for the police force, but I also feel that we need a police force - the public safety issues are getting out of hand. (10/26/2022 11:47:31 AM) Although I don't think a police force would be a bad idea, especially if other universities in Baltimore have them as well, I think we do have to keep in mind the history of power this university has, sometimes used to be prejudice. What is the reason for a police force when some do not want their presence. (10/26/2022 11:50:03 AM) I think adding the JHU PD would be great for students and only make them more safe. Rather than opposing the idea of a private police force, we should entertain it to protect our students. At the same time, we should allocate resources to educating them to address the concerns of other members of our community. However, I believe they should be armed, as it will allow them to stop crime! We need a private police force given all the recent crime in the area. It is truly not safe out here! (10/26/2022 11:50:30 AM) I am no expert on this so I don't not know the exact means. But I think there should definitely be more measures to increase students' safety so that they can walk home without the fear of being robbed/assaulted. At the very least, series of crimes with similar patterns should not emerge (like the recent burglary in 3700 block). And at the very least, students should at least feel safe in broad day light? It seems that many of the incidents happen during the day, not even at late night. Everyday when I go home, I can't help but think about the possibility of me getting robbed. I can't afford to be robbed financially. And I also fear for my life. Although I want to walk home at night to enjoy some fresh air to destress. The recent incidents leave me no choice but to take a Blue Jay Shuttle. (10/26/2022 12:12:33 PM) this whole kidnapping thing email yesterday that the email called an armed robbery ... lol pls make it stop (10/26/2022 12:09:53 PM) I am concerned that the voices of Black students and parents are being overshadowed in this conversation. (10/26/2022 12:11:08 PM) For a so-called progressive institution, I find it utterly blasphemous that the introduction of a JHPD is being discussed. The state of the US in the recent past has made it abundantly clear that increased policing only threatens the safety and freedom of the communities that it is meant to serve, especially regarding POC's and minorities. It is hard enough to watch a man die with a police officer's knee on his throat on a television, so I cannot imagine what it would be like to see that on my way to the library. This is the unrest that the JHPD is threatening, and you do not have the power to ensure that this will not happen. Do you want this blood on your hands? (10/26/2022 12:33:46 PM) Read this paper on why broken window policing is ineffective: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3226951/Sampson_SystematicSocialObservation.pdf (10/26/2022 12:22:21 PM) There is no real consequence system on campus or off. It feels like I live in a lawless city and community where individuals do things they otherwise wouldn’t if they knew it were less likely that they would get away with them. (10/26/2022 12:27:37 PM) I think its unacceptable that we have burglaries and mugging and beating happening almost every week.its even more shocking that these crimes happen very close to our school, and often to our affiliates. I hope that the school address the issue of campus and near campus safety (10/26/2022 12:34:14 PM) it feels like the administration isn't listening to the concerns of students at all, (10/26/2022 12:38:38 PM) The JHPD will only increase feelings of fear around campus. The presence of armed police officers will only increase power imbalances and sentiments that the area is unsafe. This also can lead to discrimination among affiliates and by affiliates against non affiliates. Because of its potential to create these imbalances and discriminatory sentiments, I directly oppose the JHPD. (10/26/2022 12:50:25 PM) Please listen to the Hopkins community when we say WE DO NOT WANT YOUR PRIVATE POLICE FORCE! (10/26/2022 12:54:59 PM) Please implement the police force! Baltimore is a dangerous city and it’s very much needed. (10/26/2022 1:49:26 PM) n/a (10/26/2022 2:02:27 PM) Significant abundance of monitored camera surveillance of San Martin, university pkwy, north Charles street from sunset to midnight. Recording camera surveillance all other hours. Armed but not forceful suv patrols around campus with high frequency sunset to midnight. There’s no confidence in safety. In an armed robbery I’d lose all my possessions. In a knife fight or less serious weapons fight I’d run to the library beach entrance for a chance to get away safely. Where else can I go for active help? The blue buttons likely are used after a victim is robbed. Can’t call the police if our phones are robbed. I honestly hope that a high ranking JHU official or even faculty members start getting gunned down and robbed because that would heighten the catalyst for implementing greater safety; students gunned down and robbed everyday has ostensibly become so frequent it has lost its surreal impression and lost its recognition. However, the high ranking JHU officials and faculty know they won’t be robbed if they never stroll the campus after dinner. Each time a student gets gunned down and robbed, each academic department head and each administrative head should be enforced to complete one walk around the campus perimeter, serving as recognition and remorse that the students are real life targets for crime on the very same campus the faculty work. If you haven’t caught on, one successfully completed robbery encourages yet another robbery attempt. JHU is too worried about the Covid pandemic and should shift focus to the more relevant robbery epidemic; our campus has had more news about robberies than news about scientific accomplishments and pursuits, despite suppression of robbery news. JHU is becoming the next L.A. bank robbery 1980/90s epidemic. If students can’t concealed carry, then why do felons get to open carry and rob students on campus. I so dearly want to stop a gunslinging robber and become the start of JHU’s new movement towards having a normal safe campus. To get to a safe campus will take some effort that will have to get ugly for some Baltimore felons’ lives. Don’t be sympathetic to felons and negotiate a safe path forward, wipe them out and start anew. Hopkins could be the best educational institution if it wasn’t for fears of imminent life threatening harm to get to campus. Homewood campus stands out so much like an apple store amongst the dilapidated surroundings. It’s not like the surroundings are essential, all the faculty live far away from campus and all the students pray they can live as close to campus as possible; all material resources are non-local, shipped/imported so why support the campus’s surrounding “charm”. There’s an immoral subjection the school places onto students where the only safe place to buy food is the overpriced food at charMar, the next nearest two retail/grocers to campus (uniMini, CVS) have entrances inhabited by unsafe homeless entities harassing every potential consumer; more or less forming a monopoly on quick access to non-cafeteria food; please have new police department clean up St. Paul’s street: having bluejay shuttles to giant or trader joe’s (safer alternatives) is nice but are not quick access. JHU has had more armed robberies of affiliates than I thought could happen. I hope Hopkins gets publicly humiliated on media for enabling felonies and turning their students into walking targets. I hope this because it would definitely lead to changes for safety. For the students that are against a police force, ask them “would you rather be profiled by a police officer,,, or be gunned down robbed of money/possessions by a criminal/felon”. I think I position to the police force may have a louder voice than the voice of those in favor of a police force; that DOES NOT mean there are more actual numbers of people opposed than the number of people in favor; it’s usually the softer voices who are more sane. Having a new large police department may cost a lot of money. And then the kicking-and- screaming groups who strangely oppose public safety in favor of their own personal status agenda, will increase the working hours of the school’s counselors, costing the school more money. But all that cost will be worth because the social life of students will increase and instead of the culture of individualistic pursuits, their will be more collaborative pursuits that share a foundation centered around being Hopkins students, which may later on result in larger alumni donations. That may seem far fetched but just take a look at Hopkins: safety/size/location are the limitations of this for-profit institution becoming contenders with Harvard Yale MIT. But honestly and in conclusion, it is so clear that Hopkins can not get better and has hit its impenetrable ceiling because of its detracting and limiting location. The only way Hopkins will get better is if Baltimore is wiped out or if Hopkins moves locations to someplace. I would start saving money for a relocation far away like around APL for example. The realistic only way Hopkins can bet marginally better is if it further heightens the metaphorical fence around campus creating a safer bubble. I really hope the police department is great with every member confidently loyal, or else there could be officer-converts who secretly support felons for a share of the student’s loot that was robbed with a bad apple police officer’s support. Also the school bought DC’s NEWSEUM for $302,000,000 (millions!) and should thus easily be able to fund a small private special operations campus DEFENSE system (no offense necessary). Let’s say an armed police patrol spots an active armed robbery of a student; the robbers gun-wound the student and leave victim on the ground getting back in their car while exchanging gunfire with the police,, and then the police officer happened to wound one of the felons in this situation…. My fear is that these same felons will weeks later try to commit a revengeful homicide against that same officer;; I say this because this semester there has been 5 armed robberies, and with a larger police force there will inevitably be an opportunity for live intervention,, and these Baltimore felons are literally crazy enough to shoot a student and then a cop and I don’t want Hopkins becoming an afghan warzone where police are fighting crazed revengeful felons just to protect an Asian students phone and debit card balance (30% Asian student body, the race with largest proportion on campus, relax). Just to reiterate, for homewood: a million dollars can fund 4 new felony-deterrent police SUVs, 1 year of fair wages for 4 newly armed and loyal police officers with campus-specific experience, 20 high end color/night vision/thermal imaging security cameras with their installation around campus perimeter, 1 year fair wages for a desk-job surveillance operator to monitor the cameras and provide headquarters-dispatch communications management. This would make all the six thousand homewood students feel so so so much safer and happier. Increase of safety is an increase of happiness. I can’t wait for a police force. Besides praying, how else can the students give this police department support and a proper appreciative welcoming!? (10/27/2022 3:50:29 PM) please pass asap. Just pretty please don't enforce parking tickets, i park on campus all the time, would be bad for my wallet (10/26/2022 2:22:51 PM) Why do you feel the need to go completely against the general consensus of your entire student, faculty, and community populations to implement the JHPD? (10/26/2022 2:24:37 PM) Whenever others say I would still support the JHPD cause I don’t want myself to get into dangerous situation (10/26/2022 2:52:36 PM) The student body does not want a private police force and false events to gain student support bulldoze the opposition by students, faculty, and staff. (10/26/2022 3:09:35 PM) Johns Hopkins does not need a polic force. We have security. I would feel much more unsafe myself and on behalf of my peers with a polic force on campus ESPECIALLY if there are guns. I do NOT want ther to be people with guns on capmus in an capacity. (10/26/2022 3:35:59 PM) Obviously the area around campus is not very safe, but adding police is not a long-term solution. If Hopkins genuinely wants to make Baltimore safer, they should be working with city leaders to try and make actual systemic changes. (10/26/2022 3:48:57 PM) I have been around several campuses with their own police force, however, given the small size of Hopkins campus and student body, the fact that there is already a security force and Hopkins rarely has large events, and that Hopkins is not incorporated separately from Baltimore proper, I simply see no reason to pursue this. While I don't share the doom and gloom opinions of many on the campus, I simply believe that there are better ways to invest this money in the students and campus proper than a redundant security force that, frankly, does not have much of a purpose on this campus. (10/26/2022 4:08:56 PM) The police system in this country wasn't built with my safety in mind, and I don't want to ingrain that on campus, a place I feel safe. (10/26/2022 5:02:45 PM) Creating the JHPD will only isolate the student body even more from the Baltimore community. You will be furthering resentment from our neighbors in Remington and creating an even less safe environment. President Daniels claims to believe in democracy, yet he does not hear all the students and community members protesting against JHPD? Hopkins will be on the wrong side of history if it goes through with this. (10/26/2022 5:22:51 PM) Listen to Baltimore's local activists. (10/26/2022 6:10:07 PM) I believe that this campus needs to be secure and that it should be accomplished by whatever means necessary. I, as a 'minority' do not feel the fear that most of my people want me to feel. From the information that I know, granted is not very detailed, I imagine the implementation of the JHPD is for our safety, not chaos. Therefore I support the cause, especially if it will make campus and surrounding areas safer and more enjoyable to walk around. (10/26/2022 6:32:47 PM) Although we have a few security measures, I do believe we need more safety measures. My friends and I all agree that we feel extremely unsafe when walking outside of campus, even near St Paul's st. This could be done through implementing greater number of police/security guards around campus. It would also help to increase the transparency of campus safety alert, such as revealing more details about the perpetrator and the incident itself. Most of the times, students are not sure how and why the incidents happened. I believe follow-ups regarding incidents are also essential. (10/26/2022 8:04:27 PM) The US policing system is racist and the JHPD will be no except. (10/26/2022 8:30:26 PM) I think most students who strongly oppose the JHPD are reacting to nationwide police violence and have learned little about the JHPD specifically. (10/26/2022 9:41:08 PM) I don't understand enough about the department to give comments, other than generic concerns people have been having about police for years. (10/26/2022 9:42:31 PM) jhpd will only perpetuate racist stereotypes. i don't want campus to feel like a military base. (10/26/2022 9:48:57 PM) a better security guard system instead of introducing JHPD: better wage for security guards more shifts (they have to work very long hours without a shift) more training on racial profiling (10/26/2022 10:05:50 PM) I think the expansion of JHPD at this time is good, necessary, and urgent. The fact that an affiliate can be held at gunpoint, forced into a car, and driven to multiple ATMs before being dropped off near student housing without any police intervention is wholly absurd, and that's literally happening on the edge of campus, where hundreds of students walk to and from school every day. I shouldn't have to look over my shoulders while walking to student housing every night. (10/26/2022 10:36:26 PM) Minority students WILL feel unsafe and implementation of JHPD will only exacerbate the problems between Hopkins and the surrounding communities. (10/26/2022 10:46:48 PM) We need the JHPD. (10/26/2022 11:17:24 PM) Overall security risks of this school seems to be immense. What I find even more unfortunate is that the same crimes seem to occur repeatedly around campus. At this point, I believe that the school should make a firm decision on whether the students around campus is safe or not and act accordingly, as soon as possible. For a school with focused on academic rigor, I am immensely disappointed with how the school keeps one of its most valued assets, its students, away from danger. (10/27/2022 12:50:26 AM) The current campus security staff that JHU has stationed on and around the Homewood campus is sufficient. I, and many of my fellow students that I've talked with about this, find it hard to believe that the creation of a police force would have any effect on crime and safety around Homewood campus. Instead, many students--particularly those from marginalized communities-- will feel less safe with the police force than with the current campus security force. (10/27/2022 10:47:31 AM) NA (10/27/2022 1:27:42 PM) More Hopkins security officers (not police officers) in the blocks north of campus (such as near 100 West University Parkway, where the recent robbery was) would be good (10/27/2022 2:31:20 PM) Almost every week we receive emails about robberies and other crimes happening right next to campus! This makes students feel very unsafe. Many of the people I have talked to feel unsafe in a high crime environment such as Baltimore. We need to step up and protect the safety of all on campus the best we can. (10/27/2022 4:18:21 PM) I do not trust police organizations to be free of corruption, blinded by their power and superiority complex. Events in the country, both infamous and the more obscure, indicate that while police can rein in crime, they can also proliferate it while also getting off scot-free because of their job. And yet, I suppose admin are as lost as I am in thinking of what else could improve public safety if not police officers. I only hope that the private police, if enforced, are highly regulated (e.g. having them wear body cameras that are always on while they're on duty), and that the accountability board does their job. (10/27/2022 9:37:44 PM) Same as prior comment. (10/28/2022 11:43:35 AM) Recently there’s been a lot of unsafe situations around campus and even on campus (the armed robbery by Olin hall). The security we have now seem incompetent and frankly, they’re always high when I see them and are not very useful. JHPD in and around campus ensures students safety and I urge it to be implemented. Our safety should not be a political agenda. (10/28/2022 5:29:16 PM)