CRM 2300 Lecture Notes - Pepper Spray, Suharto, Knife Fight
13 Feb 2013
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Role of police in cjs (from the liberal perspective: interface between citizen and state, problems. When the cops right to use force is co-opted by state for police purposes. Conflict cop culture and role of police in state accountability. Btw the way cops are trained are the role that we expect them to perform: methods of accountability. The police are, in effect, the first and main keepers of the integrity and fairness of the. Cjs the police have a profound and taxing responsibility to balance individual rights with society"s need for security. To force people to obey the law, stop them from what they"re doing, to make them conform- to bring it back to a peaceful state. Relationship btw state (cops) and individual is therefore, fear. Protect the rights of the two people in the knife fight. Only going to use as much force as reasonably necessary: initiating court process.
