SOSC 3655 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ideology And Ideological State Apparatuses, Proactive Policing, Bb Gun
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The media tends to focus more on civilian deaths than police deaths: the police places their lives on the line while civilians do not. 13 year old youth shot, holding a bb gun: look at the facts of the case before rushing to judgment, the gun did not have an orange tip and looked very much like an actual gun. New york bombing with pressure cooking bomb: reactive policing - reacting to events, proactive policing - reacting to prevent events. It"s the results after the case is where we run into issues. Ex; education, healthcare, religion, family, the state, etc. Modern society controls and regulates populations by breaking down ideas. Uses force, rather than ideas, to get people to conform: social exclusion. It"s hard to exile or socially shame the population in a modern city. Institutions and policing are socially constructed to fulfill a need. The birth of industrial society and the law.