HGP240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Begging, Access Control, Complete Streets
17 Nov 2016
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Both public and privaet police; and both allowed guns. Being used on fare evadors (is it really neccesary) Issues of disabled people and fare gates. Limited ability to use hands to swipe cards. So one gat eis left open (defeats the purpose) Proximity cards, you don"t have to remove from pocket and swipe. Securitization; making ordinary city areas as secure as exceptional places like airports. Incident,palman hill, gun shooter where mp were meeting. These are not things we see everyday. Respoond to insecurity, by adding more security but we then feel more unsafe. Geography of crime, different from geography of fear. Actual crime and fear of crime are disconnected, but. Fear can be cultivated and channeled into particular kinds of responses. At times influencecd by media (invasion of iraq; stupidest thing) At times, like during olympics mimlitary is used in the city. Now policing is looking more and more like military.
