Amidst Unsolved Homicide, UC Berkeley to Reduce Role of Police in Campus Safety

Students pass through Sather Gate of the college campus at the University of California, Berkeley. David A. Litman/Shutterstock

The University of California-Berkeley announced Thursday a series of measures to reform its police department, in response to the growing call for the administrators to “re-imagine alternative systems” of campus safety.

In a statement declaring the changes, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ pledged to work with the UCPD and the community to make the use of police force “as restrictive as possible” within the school policy and the law, including banning the use of chokeholds.