Hopkins’s Move to Create a Police Force Raises Concerns

After a two-plus-year pause, Johns Hopkins University (MD) is moving ahead with plans to establish a private, armed police force. This week it released a draft of its memorandum of understanding with the Baltimore Police Department, laying out the framework for their division of duties. The two police departments will share the authority to patrol the “campus area,” which includes any buildings owned, operated, leased or controlled by Hopkins within the three Baltimore campuses: the main Homewood campus, the Peabody Institute campus and the medical campus in East Baltimore.