CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Multiracial, Border Search Exception, Johann Eck
7 Feb 2016
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What is the single most common response to address a rising crime. Politicians are always talking about increasing the size of the police (cid:1) (cid:1) problem? (cid:1) (cid:1) force (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Throwing more people at a problem doesn"t automatically fix it; may have other problems; depends. in 2011, there were 12. 5 million arrests in america: violence = 4, property = 13, drug = 12, larceny = 10% (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1, dui = 10, other = 51% (quality of life offenses) service: social problems. Reading: the social organization of arrest by donald black. Data collected summer 1966 by systematic observation of police- citizen transactions in boston, chicago, and dc. 36 observers recorded observations of police-citizen encounters recorded data in incident booklets not in presence of police (body cameras; police would have to alter behavior) N for analysis: only 5% of total.
