SOC326H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Pragmatism, Hypermasculinity
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Canadian charter of rights and freedoms (1982) Federal, provincial, regional, municipal, first nations, and private police forces. Most police are operating are the municipal level. Increasing popularity of contract policing and tiered policing (defs) Tiered police traditional police and other types of police. Contract police when large police services like rcmp opp do municipal level work. Symbolic value and powers of police (cid:862)ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374) (cid:858)use of for(cid:272)e(cid:859) (cid:373)odel(cid:863) Police have a lot of discretion, they can problem solve use all sorts of alternative methods. Police are empowered to coerce a provisional solution to emerging problems without having to defer to opposition of any kind. Financial interests are really at play for police and the people (?) Variations in police work (allocation of police personnel time) Patrolling 65% undramatic, boring, routine, action driven by request of public, its very reactive; police are first responders, sort of investigate, protect the scene, attend to victims (when called to crisis police officer.
