Premium
Find ways to build community by getting out of squad cars, sponsoring activities
Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
campus security report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-6247
pISSN - 1551-2800
DOI - 10.1002/casr.30600
Subject(s) - law enforcement , preparedness , resource (disambiguation) , work (physics) , perspective (graphical) , engineering , political science , police department , public relations , discipline , management , sociology , law , criminology , computer science , art , visual arts , mechanical engineering , computer network , economics
Rick Tanksley brought a fresh perspective to community policing when he became the Director of Campus Safety and Emergency Preparedness at Occidental College in 2018. Before his time at Occidental, Tanksley was Vice President of Law Enforcement Consulting at Hillard Heintze, where he oversaw, among other initiatives, a project on community‐based policing. He brought those strategies to Occidental so students, staff, and faculty would see the work of his department as a resource and not just view the department as disciplinary. “Many people view us as being associated with the police, and that's not our mission,” Tanksley said. “We're here to be a resource; we're not just looking to arrest someone.”