CRIM 3654 Chapter Notes -Gated Community, Commodification
13 Dec 2013
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Policing in canada, and throughout the world, is evolving from a system in which public police provide almost all policing services, to one where a range of public and private agencies share responsibilities for many of these activities. In many urban areas, we are seeing a continuum of policing agencies that are responsible for policing: e. g. private security resolve complaints that were once within exclusive domain of the public police. Notion of policing has increasingly been viewed as a commodity for sale in the marketplace. Questions raised over the responsibility of payment of the costs of policing such areas be for the state or the mass private property owners: policing of more public life now falls to private rather than public police. It is now almost impossible to identify any function or responsibility of the public police which is not somewhere under some circumstances, assumed and performed by private police in democratic societies.
