Acting Police Commissioner Michael Harrison feels a police force at Johns Hopkins University would help Baltimore, so long as a memorandum of understanding between the college and the city makes the school’s force accountable to local officials.

This information comes from an op-ed by Mayor Catherine Pugh published yesterday in The Afro. Matthew Jablow, chief of public information for the Baltimore Police Department, confirmed that Pugh’s characterization is an accurate representation of Harrison’s views.

Pugh writes that in New Orleans, where Harrison served as police superintendent for four years and oversaw sweeping reforms as part of a federal consent decree, all seven of the universities in the city limits–five private and two public–have armed police forces.

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