SOC326H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Cosby Show, Community Policing, Law & Society Review
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What is policing: to regulate, control, or keep in order with a law enforcement agency or other official group, to impose one"s viewpoint or beliefs regarding, especially in an authoritarian way: policing others" comments by implementing speech codes. To critique in a presumptuous or arrogant manner: policed the grammar of everyone wh: commented on the blog post, to make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance: policed the barracks. Who/what are the police: a body of government employees trained in methods of law and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community. A body of persons with a similar organization and function: campus police. The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty. Exclusions: create rule to exclude/cast out certain kinds of behaviours. Unanticipated consequences: unanticipated consequences of how laws are developed, laws against homelessness (public loitering with mental health issues)
