Faculty at Cornell University have approved a resolution that would remove a suspect’s race from crime alerts, arguing that its inclusion encourages suspicion of Black people.
Passed last week, the Faculty Senate resolution removed race as an identifier and called out an alleged effect on Black people.
“[T]he knowledge that a crime may have been committed by a Black man does not make CRIME ALERT recipients any safer, but instead endangers Black people in the community, reinforcing the…
