The University and its private police force benefit from our silence about their authoritarian conduct. All complaints filed against the police are currently internally investigated, and the nature of the complaints is not shared with the public. This allows them to control the narrative, avoid public scrutiny, and manufacture consent for an armed body that polices Baltimore’s citizens but is not accountable to them.
Even if your experience with the JHPD was not union-related, please feel free to use this resource to log complaints so we can maintain a publicly available repository for all Baltimoreans to view!
If you had an encounter you’d like to file a complaint about, but don’t know how to go about it, please fill out the form anyway, and a union steward will be happy to help you!
TRU-UE 197 stands firmly against the JHPD. We started this repository in order to document our experience of Johns Hopkins using its private military to union bust, crack down on student protestors, and intimidate, harass, and repress Pro-Palestinian speech and demonstration on campus.
We hope this can be a shared community resource that helps us all organize towards real safety and community care as we build coalitions across organized labor, students, and our neighbors. We keep us safe! <3
JHPD HALL OF SHAME!
