SOC326H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Police Van, Police Legitimacy, Racial Profiling
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Is decision to not contest w/ other 2 guys, let them go, is that decision of citizen or state agent: moral judgement is still present police talks about other 2 guys as if they were financially unstable . Policing paradigms organizes how police work should be done historical paradigm. 1 class-control policing crime: focus on public order offences, preventative: prevent public order offences then prevent bigger, community-police relations: police arresting [social control] as, technology: low-level, police walked beats well as social welfare. Incapable of doing anything more than that b/c lack of tech. Made it impossible for you [police] to police. 3 community policing: focus: crime, social order. We"re broadening the picture of crim and social order: proactive. Instead of answering 911 call, police socialize w/ community members. Community comes to police about problems and fears. Community defines what is policing problem in: community-police relations community. Police work with community to identify lay problems and forge solutions.
