UCLA's recent inaction has demonstrated a shift to neutrality in their stance against systemic violence and oppression. Their submission to the Los Angeles Police Department in utilizing Jackie Robinson Stadium as a "field jail" for apprehending civil rights protesters is egregious​, hurtful, and demands wide condemnation. Their response has been inadequate and their plans to prevent future incidents are non-existent. They have set a precedent with grave consequences: green-lighting indifference and complicity by other educational institutions while resorting to ignorance to escape liability.

We demand the following immediate actions from the University of California and its constituent campuses:

• To terminate relations and contracts with local and municipal police departments.
• To publicly issue statements indicating that local police departments as well as other law enforcement agencies will not be able to use campus facilities and grounds, whether leased or directly owned by the university. 
• To clarify past incidents where police have used campus property, and to publicly release communication records that exonerate universities from complicity.
• To publicly and immediately announce and refuse any future requests for campus ground use by law enforcement agencies.
• To declare their grounds as sanctuaries where first amendment rights can be rightfully and harmlessly exercised without the threat of police violence. 

We demand the following long-term commitments from the University of California and its constituent campuses in combating systemic oppression, racism, and the inflicted violence of police brutality:

• Reallocation of funds from campus police departments to community organizations, justice movements, and awareness programs within the UC system.
• Divestment from all agreements and contracts with state and local law enforcement agencies and police-adjacent entities.
• Reinvestment in education, health, and housing of Black students and POC rather than in policing.
• Systemic adjustments to increase Black student enrollment rates from the current appalling rate of 2% for undergraduate students. 
• Inauguration of African American Student Development Resource Centers in all campuses with event spaces allocated to help improve Black students’ relatively low graduation rate of 77 percent.
• Diversification of the disproportionately white tenured faculty and retention of Black students and staff.
• Mandating in-person diversity competency training for all incoming students, reviewed and approved by Black student unions/groups.
• Hiring of Black psychologists across campuses who understand the racially hostile climate of the education system.
• Hiring Black development advisers to mentor and provide academic guidance to Black students and POC.

To prevent future incidents of complicity, such as the one that occurred at the Jackie Robinson Stadium, we demand the University of California and all of its constituent campuses to cease ongoing affiliations, abstain from any pending collaborations, and refuse any further assistance with and to law enforcement agencies that resort to violence and violation of civil rights in an attempt to suppress the ongoing racial injustice protests.

Any form of engagement with such organizations or any other entity that leads to the encroachment of civil liberties, violation of constitutional rights, and the continued subjugation of the systemically oppressed must face resistance and the vehement objection of chancellors, administrators, faculty, student body, and the universities' legal teams. The University of California must take action in establishing their ethical, moral, and legal boundaries. However, in light of their indecisiveness, only time will indicate what those boundaries are.

Let there be light.

Note: The signatories of Concerned Faculty Letter to Chancellor and EVCP are not affiliated with this petition. You can read their full letter here, UCLA's retort here, and the faculty's response to UCLA here.