Abstract
Fulfilling their mandate to provide campus safety, the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA campus police encounter and deal with homeless people. University policy tasks campus police to remove people sleeping overnight or setting up shelter on campus. Although signs are posted restricting campus access to students, faculty or employees between 10 pm and 8 am, violations are not prosecuted as trespass. Therefore, the university serves a social service function by providing spaces for temporary sleeping and subsequent referral to support for the homeless. This interaction has transformed campus landscape, now functioning as intake locale. Data from university police reports dealing with such incidents from January 1, 2024 through November 7, 2024 provide the basis for charting locations of such spaces and quantifying such occupation/use. We consider this and other statistics such as correlation of resulting police action (outcomes) with location are provided. Images from police reports and photos taken by the author of these locations (absent or redacted for people), as well as a map marked with their locations also comprise the report.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Landscape Architecture, Law Enforcement, Police, Homeless, Homelessness, Social Justice
