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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear GSOE Graduate Students,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find the message below from colleagues Aubrey, Anna and Briana.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Heather<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, friends! In response to some proposed revisions to UC policing policies, some of us in the GSOE drafted a statement that has just been sent out to UC administrators. Please consider signing our petition<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://chng.it/GgD2HHV2Mp"><span style="color:purple">here</span></a> and
sharing with everyone you know! The letter is attached in the email below.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:alanc008@ucr.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">alanc008@ucr.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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From:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Aubrey Lancaster</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:alanc008@ucr.edu"><span style="color:purple">alanc008@ucr.edu</span></a>><br>
Date: Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 2:30 PM<br>
Subject: Statement on Proposed Revisions to Universitywide Police Policies and Administrative Procedures<br>
To: <<a href="mailto:jason.stajich@ucr.edu"><span style="color:purple">jason.stajich@ucr.edu</span></a>>, <<a href="mailto:chancellor@ucr.edu"><span style="color:purple">chancellor@ucr.edu</span></a>>, <<a href="mailto:gerard.bomotti@ucr.edu"><span style="color:purple">gerard.bomotti@ucr.edu</span></a>>,
<<a href="mailto:mariam.lam@ucr.edu"><span style="color:purple">mariam.lam@ucr.edu</span></a>>, Tasha Hudson <<a href="mailto:tasha.hudson@ucr.edu"><span style="color:purple">tasha.hudson@ucr.edu</span></a>>, <<a href="mailto:john.freese@ucr.edu"><span style="color:purple">john.freese@ucr.edu</span></a>>,
<<a href="mailto:christine.bender@ucr.edu"><span style="color:purple">christine.bender@ucr.edu</span></a>>, <<a href="mailto:regentsoffice@ucop.edu"><span style="color:purple">regentsoffice@ucop.edu</span></a>>, <<a href="mailto:president@ucop.edu"><span style="color:purple">president@ucop.edu</span></a>>,
<<a href="mailto:Cheryl.Lloyd@ucop.edu"><span style="color:purple">Cheryl.Lloyd@ucop.edu</span></a>><br>
Cc: Anna Acha <<a href="mailto:aacha009@ucr.edu"><span style="color:purple">aacha009@ucr.edu</span></a>>, Briana Savage <<a href="mailto:bsava002@ucr.edu"><span style="color:purple">bsava002@ucr.edu</span></a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Statement on Proposed Revisions to Universitywide Police Policies and Administrative Procedures</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">21 April 2021<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Addressed to:</u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jason Stajich, Chair of the Riverside Division of the Academic Senate<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kim A. Wilcox, Chancellor, Riverside Campus<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Mariam Lam, Vice Chancellor, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Riverside Campus<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John Freese, Interim Chief of Police, Riverside Campus<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gerry Bomotti, Vice Chancellor, Planning, Budget, & Administration, Riverside Campus<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">John A. Pérez, Chair, Board of Regents, University of California<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Michael V. Drake, President, University of California<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Cheryl A. Loyd, Interim Vice President, Systemwide Human Resources<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Today, it has come to our attention that the UC Academic Senate is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview/gold-book-systemwide-review.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">considering
revisions</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>published by the UCOP to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000382/PoliceProceduresManual" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">Universitywide
Police Policies and Administrative Procedures</span></a>, affecting UCPD practices systemwide.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Oppositions to Proposed Revisions</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We, the undersigned as UC students and community members, comprehensively<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>object to these police revisions that expand the UCPD’s use of force standards and that create new taskforces<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>without
community oversight and stakeholder inclusion. Specifically, we oppose the creation of a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>specialized tactical team</b>--identified in Chapter 16 of the proposed revisions as a Systemwide Response Team (SRT)--that
is trained in “crowd management and control tactics” (1604.3.2.b). While the proposal understands its creation as an intent to “emphasize de-escalation” and incorporate “‘less lethal’ weapons,” the proposal to create a specialized tactical team that would
be deployed against any campus protestors implies a hostile campus climate that discourages student and community voices.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Additionally, the ambiguity of the SRT’s responsibilities in section 1605.2 permits an unspecified group of UCPD officers to develop “training guidelines” in 11 broad response categories without any oversight. Again, new policies must not
be developed by the UCPD, but by community stakeholders in collaboration with the UCPD, if it is to continue to exist. If we are to create a safer and more equitable UC climate, no longer may those affected by new policies be left out of these conversations.
Furthermore, we reject the issuance of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>specialized, military-style equipment</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to the SRT that includes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>chemical agents,
helmets with face shields, 36” batons, kinetic energy projectiles, and riot gear</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(sections 1606.1, 1606.2). We believe that this equipment discourages and undermines the de-escalation tactics that the UCPD supposedly
seeks to expand. This equipment, which also includes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>unspecified “[s]pecialized equipment for defeating protestor devices”</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(1606.2) is specifically motivated by recent
antiracist global protests against police brutality and further targets UC communities of color by both the intimidation and actualization of physical violence against protestors.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Current Campus Reality & Address to Police Practices</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The UC system does not exist outside of the ongoing pervasive realities of systemic racism and antiblackness: these structures are as endemic to our UC institutions as much as they are throughout higher education and the United States at
large. Students of color have long been subject to racial profiling on UC campuses, including hostile UCPD responses to peacefully protesting students. Most notably, in 2011, a UCPD officer went viral for pepper-spraying seated students who were peacefully
protesting and, in 2013, UCR officers implemented new policing policies to combat robberies that directly correlated to more frequent stops and harassment of Black students due to the latent racial profiling within policing.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>In line with principles of academic freedom, if the UC system encourages critical thinking at the intersection of social justice, students must be guaranteed the freedom to protest injustice without fear of academic, physical, or administrative
retaliation.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>The aforementioned UCPD revisions are antithetical to these espoused UC values. If UC espouses these principles, it is critical to address the ongoing practices of the UCPD. At our campus, UC Riverside,
reform efforts include a comprehensive review of campus police practices by the Graduate Student Association, which is intentionally undermined by this proposal’s expansion of the UCPD’s use of force standards and the implementation of the SRT.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The UC system must capitalize on the momentum of recent nationwide protests against inequity and injustice to address its policies that deter safe and accessible campus ecologies and that perpetuate systemic racism. We protest these proposed
revisions that prevent the work of the larger UC community’s efforts to transform our racial climate, and work to reinforce the oppressive systems that subjugate students of color.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to our sponsorship of this letter, please see our petition at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://chng.it/GgD2HHV2Mp" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">http://chng.it/GgD2HHV2Mp</span></a>(published
21 April 2021) for additional signatories to this letter. Please also note that our petition speaks directly to current police reform proposals, but does not discount the demand for police abolition.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your attention to this troubling proposal and your ongoing actions in creating safer campuses for all students, staff, faculty, and community members.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Aubrey Lancaster<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">M.Ed. Student, Higher Education Administration and Policy<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anna Acha, M.Ed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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