(NECN: Latoyia Edwards, Cambridge, Mass.) - The president of Harvard University has announced a review is underway into the campus police department and concerns of racial profiling. This comes after complaints surfaced that officers have unfairly stopped African-Americans.
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust announced the review
yesterday in a letter to administrators and faculty that also was
posted on the university's Web site.
Faust said a special six-member committee will be headed by
Boston attorney Ralph Martin, an African-American and former
Suffolk County district attorney. It will study police diversity
training, community outreach and recruitment.
She cited an incident earlier this month when campus police
confronted a person using tools to remove a lock from a bicycle.
The person was a summer employee who owned the bike and was trying
to cut the lock because the key had broken. The Boston Globe
reports that the person, whom Faust did not identify, was a black
high school student from Boston.
*Material from the Associated Press used in this report*