PHIL 230 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pepper Spray
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Approach to public order shifting to negotiated management: avoid violence by peace-keeping, replace confrontational and violent tactics. Formal negotiation between police and protest organizers: both have demands met: peace and free expression. Only enforce in major situations that disrupt order. Large scale information collection: with proper knowledge of causes and demands -> can better predict potential problems. May relate to media presence -> want to be more peaceful: present a certain message, may intensify relationship between police and protestors, contradictory effects: peaceful or more violence. Chicago democratic national convention protest the war, advocate civil rights. Police using force -> mayor gave order to shoot if necessary. Most controversial episode of publicized policing: unprecedented sympathy to protestors, responses start negotiations on policing. Images of police brutality created crisis of institutional legitimacy: use of excessive force, should be role or protection and not violence, not supposed to be associated with politicians (mayor)
