Community policing: towards the local police state?

Gordon, Paul

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“…The oppressive experience of policing arises, not because of racism on the part of the police, but because it is principally through policing and law enforcement that the problems of poverty and exclusion are managed. In a local police state, produced, I will suggest, not as Gordon (1988) argued by design but by default, it is not police racism that reproduces poor police/ethnic minority relations. The real villain is a state that has elected to delegate the management of the problems associated with marginalisation and exclusion to the police.…”

Section: Policing the Excludedmentioning

confidence: 94%

Racial targeting and social control: looking behind the police

Hallsworth

2006

Crit Crim

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The experience, common among minority ethnic populations, that they are racially targeted has typically been laid at the door of the police whose coercive practices and whose 'institutionally racist' culture have been blamed for this state of affairs. While police practice remains an issue, it is my contention that by focusing on police practice alone critical commentators can loose sight of the extent to which racial targeting is an outcome of the regimes of control integral to the wider governance of crime in the neo liberal state. By examining the implications of anti-terror legislation, by attending to the way centres of consumption in the entrepreneurial city are regulated and by looking at how problems of serial exclusion experienced by migrant populations in Britain's poorest areas are managed, this paper examines how perceptions of racial targeting will continue to be reproduced independently of getting the police to change their practices.

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Section: Policing the Excludedmentioning

confidence: 94%

Racial targeting and social control: looking behind the police

Hallsworth

2006

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“…This has given rise to criticisms that the police's involvement in schools imports criminal justice principles into the social terrain blurring the GOVERNING THROUGH CRIME 333 line between social work and policing (Gordon, 1987). However others argue that the responsibilization strategy is a way of empowering the public.…”

Section: Police Involvement In Communities Whether Informally Throughmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing through crime: Surveillance, the community and local crime programming

Palmer

2000

Policing and Society

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This paper discusses Crimefile, a local crime programme produced by Granada television for the North-West crime region and broadcast on Britain's ITV network. The series is typical of many similar shows produced in the regions in that it focusses on a range of crimes and requests the help of the public in solving them. The aim of this paper is to discuss the ways in which Crimefile makes a contribution to and keys into shifting definitions of community. Crimefile is a product of the new climate in television where the concept and value of the public service has come under pressure from both commercial and state forces. Crimefile also has to be related to the police's various efforts to work and establish a rapport with the community. This paper seeks to discuss the degree of fit between Crimefile's presentation of crime and the various efforts of the police to activate the community. The study is undertaken within the wider frame of governance in which the aims of the state and those of the individual and community are brought together and made to coalesce against the figure of the criminal.

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“…Some commentators have argued that the top-down character of much 'community consultation' implies that consultative processes serve as a means of allowing greater police infiltration of local communities (Gordon 1984). On the other hand, research by Morgan et al, on police consultative committees, found little evidence of any "insidious police penetration" of the community (Morgan 1992, p. 180).…”

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Cops and customers: Consumerism and the demand for police services. is the customer always right?

Squires

1998

Policing and Society

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Research has drawn attention to the incorporation of localised political elites and a new 'urban officer class' into police consultation processes. The resulting corporatist-style bodies mediate a range of political and economic tensions in the development of local policing priorities. Most research on this issue has focussed upon formal police consultation processes (PCCs) and multi-agency initiatives. Here, however, we examine the extent to which a rather wider section of 'the community' shares this essentially 'local corporatist' approach to police policy making. More specifically, in the light of an increasing application of consumerist approaches to public service management, the article attempts to assess the extent to which public attitudes to policing display an increasingly individual and consumerist ideology. The article discusses some possible implications of this.

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Community policing: towards the local police state?

Abstract: C o m m u n i t y p o l i c i n g h a s i t s o r i g i n s i n t h e v a r i o u s s c h e m e s d e v e l o p e d b y the pubic. Rather c o m m u n i t y p o l i c i n g i u s t b e s e e n i n t h e c o n t e x t o f t h e

Cited by 29 publications

References 4 publications

Racial targeting and social control: looking behind the police

Racial targeting and social control: looking behind the police

Governing through crime: Surveillance, the community and local crime programming

Cops and customers: Consumerism and the demand for police services. is the customer always right?

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