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When then-General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 chose 26-year Boston police veteran Paul E. Johnson to be Harvard's police chief in 1983, he made the choice largely on one criterion: professionalism...
Johnson, who had served as director of training and education for the city's force, was a paragon of professionalism. And Steiner said he wanted, above all else, "a professional police department here...
...leaves on December 6-the date he was hired in 1983--Johnson will bequeath to his successor a department very much like the one Steiner wanted when he hired him. By nearly all accounts, Harvard police are more professional, have better facilities and hire and retain far better educated officers than they did a decade...
Johnson, then, has made Steiner's vision a reality, but the chief may leave a department that is bitterly divided over charges of discrimination and on-the-job harassment in its security guard unit. Many employees say internal relations are bad and frequently bitter, though police officers have a better working relationship than do the guards...
...case, Johnson received half-hearted backing from the Harvard administration. After a rally by about 250 students, administrators and faculty to protest what they called racial harassment, General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 issued an apology to the two Black students, although he defended the conduct of the Harvard police as being within procedural guidelines...