SOC326H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Urban Decay, Community Policing, Problem Solving
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Main aims: wants to delineate a strategy for policing that will enable the police to deal with the following problems, crime, fear, drugs, urban decay. Models of policing focused on in the article: professional crime fighting, strategic policing, problem-solving policing, community policing. What will it be: clear definition can impact the kind of training the police will hv in return. If the poli(cid:272)e do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat the(cid:455) full(cid:455) should (cid:271)e doi(cid:374)g, (cid:373)ight get (cid:272)o(cid:374)fused o(cid:448)e(cid:396) the many meanings of police. Important due to high cost of policing in the u. s: roughly billion per year (1988 data, expensive + publicly funded. Corporate strategizing aims to narrow use of assets: define and tackle manageable + bounded concerns, link to process of bureaucratization. Major problems police address: crime, fear, drugs, urban decay. Most-used strategy by us police for the last 50 years.
