How will firearms affect issues of diversity and racial profiling?
The decision to move forward with plans to arm campus police officers is based partly on the conviction that all sectors of the Brown campus community will benefit from increased security measures. A substantial portion of the training program for campus police officers will involve workshops addressing sexual orientation, racial, ethnic and gender issues, including panel discussions with broadly diverse groups of students, faculty and staff. Nearly one-third of diversity training hours will be devoted to training in non-violent methods based on the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The DPS training plans have been reviewed by faculty and administrators, including the associate provost and director of diversity, as well as by the executive director of the Governor’s Select Commission on Race and Police-Community Relations. Training – and other initiatives to enhance communications with the community – will be ongoing. Are there provisions for civilian review? The administration will e