How to Properly Fuck the Police

May 7, 2024

#35.4

Cops off Campus is back! We are building a campus-wide movement for abolition with the goal of disarming, divesting from, and dismantling the university’s police department. Campus police, especially at the UO, have had a remarkably short history, meaning we have always had other ways of addressing key needs of students and the wider community. After forming in 2012, UOPD has led charges against student protests, as well as criminalized unhoused folks, people of color, and disabled folks on our campus and in our community. A campaign to bring abolitionist solutions to UO would include finding ways to address mental health crises, the housing crisis (which UO has been a main contributor), conflict within our community, and fight for student control of key spaces on the campus, including health services and the EMU. Eugene has been on the forefront of creating systems of crisis support through CAHOOTS, something that can and should be extended to the University of Oregon campus. Abolition is nestled in a nexus of Palestine, labor, the environment, housing, and other crises perpetuated by our administration and UOPD.