Police now and then undergo radical mission adaptation. Yet, how events shape organizational police history, including the adoption of radically different missions, has largely evaded scholarship. Through a review of executive-level interviews and strategic leadership documents, we trace how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police turned from a community-policing mission to one which now highlights intelligence. We argue that while various programs and strategies to garner rank-and-file and public buy-in to the community-policing mission largely failed, problem-oriented policing nevertheless readied the ground for the next mission iteration: intelligence-led policing. The core problem underpinning the transition was not community service, but information uptake.
Grâce à une analyse historique des fonctions de surveillance de police civile, cet article examine comment la titrisation civile se déroule en traitant disciplinaire‐surveillance et de sécurité‐surveillance des pratiques distinctes et des appareils qui fonctionnent respectivement à des moyens “centripètes” et “centrifuge” et en reconfigurant triangulation de Foucault de la gouvernance d'une matrice à deux par deux: la souveraineté‐gouvernement et de la discipline‐sécurité. Cet article montre comment la titrisation de police civile s'aligne avec la transformation actuelle du gouvernement à partir d'un centripète (Keynésienne) d'une centrifuge (néolibéral) la rationalité politique. Cela revêt une importance plus large de recherche: où la rationalité politique favorise l’équilibre n'avons‐nous pas trouver une prépondérance de la discipline‐surveillance? Où déséquilibre est promu n'avons‐nous pas trouver une prépondérance de la sécurité‐surveillance? Through a historic analysis of the surveillance functions of civil policing, this article considers how securitization is taking place by treating disciplinary surveillance and security surveillance as distinct practices and apparatuses that, respectively, function in “centripetal” and “centrifugal” ways and by reconfiguring Foucault's triangulation of governance to a two‐by‐two matrix: sovereignty government and discipline security. This article shows how the securitization of civil policing aligns with the current governmental transformation from a centripetal (Keynesian) to a centrifugal (neoliberal) governmentality. This has broader research significance: where governmentality promotes equilibrium do we not find a preponderance of disciplinary surveillance? Where disequilibrium is promoted do we not find a preponderance of security surveillance?
This article examines how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police developed alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to reshape the organizational subjectivities of its members and managers in ways consistent with community policing principles. The governance of organizational conflicts is a significant aspect of police management. Moreover, since public conflict management is an important aspect of public policing, this article argues that public policing mentalities such as "legalistic-professional law-enforcement" and "community policing" directly influence how the police conceptualize and manage organizational conflicts.
Vers la fin des années 1990, les dirigeants de la GRC et le gouvernement canadien préconisaient les tribunes de justice communautaire (TJC; concertation des familles), parce que celles-ci offraient un processus compatible avec la stratégie nationale en matière de police communautaire. Après un changement d'orientation de cette stratégie, les dirigeants ont retiré leur appui au programme. Au lieu de débattre de l'efficacité du programme, on allègue que sa « montée » et son « déclin » ont été liés à son degré d'harmonisation théorique et procédurale avec les stratégies changeantes de la gouvernance nationale. Cela soulève la question du rôle des tribunes de justice réparatrice dans la gouvernance canadienne. Si un tel programme reste souhaitable, les tribunes composées de multiples agences (police, écoles publiques, protection de l'enfance, immigration, etc.) pourraient bien s'aligner avec la nouvelle structure gouvernementale liée à l'interopérabilité de la sécurité publique. Dans l'article, on envisage aussi une autre possibilité : les tribunes locales non publiques de rétablissement de la paix. Dans la conclusion, on parle des avantages potentiels et des limites de ces possibilités, et on soumet des observations théoriques générales sur le rôle de l'harmonisation lors de l'élaboration de programmes gouvernementaux.
The authors argue that policing by consent is being displaced by policing by information control. This discomfiting adaptation in liberal democracies is possible in the shadow of asymmetrical, border-collapsing exceptionalism. It has also benefited from synoptic effects in which reference to the liberal democratic legacy substitutes for liberal democratic practices. Current technologies, as demonstrated in watch-listing, public relations operations, and fourth-generation training, exemplify ironic homage to a consent and democracy. These take for granted the loss of innocence: There is no "real" (democracy, order, control) but rather impressions, which require effective simulations. The article concludes with the contention that today it is control, not justice, that must be "seen to be done."
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