he had his first encounter with university police when he was 14. He and some friends were hanging out on the Midway Plaisance, the wide parkway that connects Washington Park and Jackson Park, near Ellis Avenue, when a UCPD officer came by.

“He said, ‘Ya’ll don’t belong over here,’” Parker said.

By the time Parker moved from the neighborhood, he said, UCPD officers had stopped him so many times that they knew him by name.

Like Parker and Malone, four out of every five people stopped by university police in field interviews since June 2015 have been black men, according to the university’s data.

UCPD’s Chief Walker, himself a black man, acknowledged that accusations of racial profiling are part of UCPD’s past, but said the department has turned over a new leafCounty residents since the late 1990s and growers of heritage corn. John demonstrated some of the corn he grows — very different from the supermarket varieties — to be milled for flour. The dried yellow rows of kernels are sparse.

John Young was among the first participants in a Master Gardener class held at the county agricultural extension in 1997. He was asked to judge a garden contest in Cherokee and soon met Cherokee gardener Russ Bradley, who had been growing heritage corn and saving the seeds for many years. The two became friends.

“Russ gave him some corn for seed corn, and that’s how we got our start,” said Jane Young. “John has grown it every year since then and he really cherishes that corn.”

Every year the Youngs take