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...HUPD faces a number of unique policing challenges—the most significant being that there are frequent visitors to the Harvard campus who may be less committed to its security and well-being. Consider that, last year, 86 percent of arrests and complaints were lodged against non-Harvard affiliates. Our campus resides in the center of an urban environment, and a malicious individual could easily access the campus, commit a crime, and leave. Furthermore, the HUPD cannot examine the legitimacy of each call before responding, as this could dangerously delay an HUPD presence at the most crucial moment...
...immerse the HUPD more broadly into campus life creates opportunities for non-enforcement interactions between the HUPD and students. For example, an “account management system” would allow the HUPD to enlist individual officers in outreach efforts. Each officer would be assigned to manage a few accounts, and various student groups, Houses, administrators, and faculty members would be represented in a uniquely managed account. In order to be successful, these accounts must fulfill their reciprocal responsibility to join in the HUPD officers’ efforts. By conducting a safety seminar, attending a student group meeting...
...Next school year, we envision a closer relationship between the community and the HUPD. On move-in day, officers meet students and parents in the houses and distribute newly written literature on the HUPD, discussing our collective responsibility to security. Many students already have strong relationships with House security guards, and we hope these relationships can serve as a model for other students’ relationships with HUPD officers. For example, many students in Mather House know the house guard, Arun Malik. They talk to him about their theses or the science-fiction book he is authoring. Malik is considerably...
...Maintaining a safe campus requires collective participation. For example, we expect that anyone intending to host an event involving significant numbers of visitors should communicate with the HUPD. All Harvard affiliates should present Harvard identification when asked for it. We also recommend that the university establish a public safety committee to review policies and survey data to be conducted by the HUPD and to create more modes of community involvement...
...course, these and other measures will not solve every problem. Knowing this, the committee suggests a new method for resolving complaints of misconduct. A system for resolving disputes should be institutionalized, as it would be beneficial for everyone if fair and transparent response mechanisms regularly resolved conflicts. The HUPD could be certain they were using the best possible practices and the community could see to it that complaints were properly resolved. So, the committee recommends that the first response to a complaint from a Harvard affiliate be an internal departmental investigation. Such investigations should be systematically conducted in response...