CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bow Street Runners, Origins Game Fair, Industrial Revolution
24 Apr 2018
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Discretion: authority to choose between and among alternative courses of action based on individual judgement. Implicit (unconscious) racial bias: most of us unconsciously associate blacks and latinos with crime. Bc of what we see on tv, read, everyday exposure: artificial intelligence: computers being taught to understand our language. When news is input machines are developing same racial biases: stereotype threat: the fear of confirming a negative stereotype of a group to which you belong to, police suffer from stereotype threats. If you live in a high crime neighborhood it is a reasonable suspicion. Patrol and investigate crime: 19th century- peelers and bobbies: military like organization, uniformed, spread law enforcement in u. s. American origins: slave patrols: first real law enforcement in u. s finding runaway slaves. 1: controlling black men and women, police in the first american communities spent little timw fighting crime, delivered goods ect Revolution (phones, cars, radios, 911)= increased police time arrival: legitimacy crisis.
