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>Now the university plans to hire about 100 officers to patrol its three campuses: the Homewood campus in North Baltimore, the Peabody Institute campus in midtown and the East Baltimore campus with a hospital and medical school.

>The agreement defined the Hopkins police department’s domain as any property that is owned, leased, or operated by, or under the control of the university, specifically: the Homewood Campus, which is bounded by West University Parkway and East University Parkway on the north, East 28th Street and West 28th Street on the south, Remington Avenue and the Stony Run stream on the west, and North Calvert Street on the east; the East Baltimore Campus, which is bounded by East Eager Street on the north, East Baltimore Street on the south, North Caroline Street on the west, and North Castle Street on the east; and the Peabody campus, which is bounded by West Madison Street and East Madison Street on the north, East Hamilton Street and West Hamilton Street on the south, Cathedral Street on the west, and Saint Paul Street on the east.

>It said that police can also function on “the public property that is immediately adjacent to the campus,” including sidewalks, streets and other public rights-of-way.

>The BPD will grant Hopkins police access to its surveillance cameras that are on or near the university boundaries. It will also grant the private force access to specialized equipment, such as barricades, remote lighting sources and the Emergency Services Unit as needed for crowd control and major events.

>Homicides and any crime where Hopkins requests support from the BPD’s Crime Lab will be handled by city police.

>Another new section, “Limitation of Liability,” said that each agency would agree not to sue the other.

>Hopkins also released a summary of community feedback received during the draft period that led to changes within the agreement.

This is great, a step in the right direction

Fingers cross it works out

When does the fence go up with guard towers letting only the right people in?

This is way Zoysia grass it able to take over and entire lawn. You plant plugs of it here and there in the existing lawn, then over time each plug grows outwards in a circle consuming the old lawn. Lets see how long before the Hopkins Real Estate Co starts purchasing land inside the sacred circle.

People expecting improvements by Hopkins hiring private police are forgetting a few things. The candidate pool for hiring will likely come from BPD. Does anyone believe an OA will eliminate turf issues? How many times have we heard about cops not assisting someone because it was "outside their district"? I can't imagine the labs in the city will play nice with them when they can barely keep up with their own workload.

Hopkins could've lead the way on how to help a neighborhood without feeding the incarceration pipeline. Instead they decided to appease people who don't live here while ignoring those that do.

I may have posted this before, I worked on the Homewood campus for four years. The students were for the most part good kids - the majority of whom had no clue how to be aware when walking around a city environment. None. They would get harassed, jumped, and almost killed on Charles Street because even though you're smart enough to get into JHU, that doesn't mean you have common sense or street smarts.

Why bother fixing the BPD when you can just hire their rejects onto a force even less accountable to the public? No way that could go wrong.

Then why not teach it to them as part of urban studies?

Or we could make the area safer with an increased police presence.

Not sure how it is a little further down but when I went to school at Loyola, Charles street was considered safe. York road on the other hand….

What's wrong with educating people who are going to be out and about and be absolutely clueless in the process?

It's a wonderful opportunity for young folks to learn something new. They are young adults that clearly come from a bubble and the primary focus is apparently to preserve that bubble rather than to help them grow as people.

This isn't really about safety, it's about appeasing people with means who clearly could care less about the city or it's people.

You hit the nail on the head when you mentioned that they are perfectly intelligent young men and women.

That being the case use this opportunity to teach them street smarts.

If the rest of us can learn them why can't they?

Seemingly safer for some, at the expense of others*

> I worked on the Homewood campus for four years.

in what decade?

It’s not normal to live your life expecting to be carjacked, mugged or assaulted. We have this weird tolerance for criminal behavior in this city and it needs to stop. If you are out there intending to do someone harm you should expect to be arrested and punished.

That said could newcomers be given a warning and some advice? Sure, but that doesn’t make the area safer nor is it reasonable to just expect people to put up with criminals.

> It’s not normal to live your life expecting to be carjacked, mugged or assaulted.

Given that basically everybody at JHU now grew up in the active shooter drill era, I think it could be enlightening if you paid a visit and tried to share your thoughts on normalcy in this regard.

Bro. Whether it's "normal" or not doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

This is Baltimore.

Need I say more? I shouldn't anyone that knows this city understands exactly what I am talking about and it's not about tolerating crime, or somehow pretending it doesn't happen. It's being in tune with the sad realities of this place.

Please be assured that what I am speaking on isn't about condoning crime but it's about teaching a new generation HOW to navigate somewhere that's different from what they are used to.

Frankly, that kind of education is priceless and something they can take with them wherever they go in life.

So please don't give me a hard time when I am merely trying to be helpful.