Police-community partnerships and responses to crime: Lessons from yeoville and observatory, Johannesburg

Bénit-Gbaffou, Claire

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“…Yeoville is an innercity neighbourhood located peri-centrally to the eastern side of Johannesburg City Centre. It is a low-income neighbourhood characterised by a long history of community activism, local and international migrancy and a vibrant, and yet "problematic" 10 , microeconomy of street trade (Benit-Gbaffou 2006;Harrison 2002). Observatory, which is a middle income area adjacent to Yeoville, is part of this study given that it falls in the same policing zone as Yeoville; being served by the Yeoville Police Station and by the Yeoville Community Policing Forum.…”

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“…Yeoville's population shifted from being 85% White in 1990 into being 90% Black by 1998 (Ibid). Also, Yeoville is a suburb with a long history of activism against apartheid and the activist culture has been carried over to the post-apartheid era (Benit-Gbaffou 2006). Benit-Gbaffou (2006:303) observes that Yeoville is known to have quite a "vocal and energetic" Community Policing Forum because of the long history of political activism in the area (see a table 1 detailing organisations engaged in safety activism in Yeoville during the time of research).…”

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Ethnopolitics, Fear and Safety in a Johannesburg Neighbourhood

Katsaura¹

2014

Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention

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Fearfulness appears to have become a way of life in modern society. Many of us-or so we are told-are afraid to go out on the streets of our towns, at night certainly, but even during daylight hours as well. Yet staying at home carries its own threats: a whole industry manufacturing alarms, locks and surveillance mechanisms has been founded on our conviction that our homes are wide open to dangerous intruders. We view strangers with suspicion and the future with trepidation (Tudor 2003: 238-239). This chapter, focusing on a cosmopolitan urban context of a Johannesburg neighbourhood, examines otherising and counter otherising dynamics in the field of community safety governance. The study examines the extent to which fear of crime and violence in Johannesburg is also cast as a fear of supposed strangers, especially in contexts of existence in superdiverse contexts. Fear of real or imagined violence and crime (and other urban disorders) has a huge impact on the spatial and social organisation of contemporary cities (Sandercock 2003; Tudor 2003). Spatial impacts include the creation of gated neighbourhoods, road closures and adoption of military technologies by residents seeking to protect their spaces (Davis 1998; Landman 2004a; Landman 2004b; Landman 2008; Murray 2011). Social impacts include the formation of safety governing community organisations, neighbourhood associations, mob justice and other preventive, adaptive or reactive individual or social group practices (strategies and tactics) (

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Section: Yeoville's Socio-economic Crime Violence and Fear Historiesmentioning

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Ethnopolitics, Fear and Safety in a Johannesburg Neighbourhood

Katsaura¹

2014

Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention

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“…Thus, externally constructed and initiated modifications of ordering attempts such as World Cup-related interventions are met by a complex web of local understandings, trajectories, and practices of how to frame, shape and control city space [23,24]. This dialectic relationship in spatial scales within the perspective on mega-event development and urban politics in South Africa seems to be increasingly defined by attracting investment through urban entrepreneurialism [25].…”

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“Festivalisation” of Urban Governance in South African Cities: Framing the Urban Social Sustainability of Mega-Event Driven Development from Below

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This article is based on field research in two South African host cities of the Men's Football World Cup 2010 (eThekwini and Johannesburg). The discussed work is part of the research project "Festivalisation" of Urban Governance: The Production of Socio-Spatial Control in the Context of the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. In the context of mega-events, impacts and changes on urban development can vary on a spectrum of festivalisation between opposing poles, either-driven by the event‖, or on the other hand where existing configurations of actors and established policies are-driving the event‖. By drawing on a theoretical framework which is inspired by an analytical understanding of urban governance, our assumptions are that (a) different configurations of governance promote different ways of handling the challenges associated to the hosting and (b) that different types of-festivalisation‖ have different consequences and effects for the lived realities of the residents at a local level. The latter is an arena in which urban governance policies are translated, adapted, renegotiated or rejected. We argue that the bringing together of both spheres (local and metropolitan) provides a profound understanding of the process of mega-event implementation and its relation to urban social sustainability.

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“…A holistic view of security is embedded in the movement from incident-driven to problem-solving approaches to policing that received greater salience in recent years (Skogan et al ., 1999). Over the last 40 years, public outreach and participation are important themes in police strategic planning in cities across the globe (Benit-Gbaffou, 2006). As the community policing movement gained recognition through the 1980s and 1990s, the concept of active engagement with the community become a prominent norm (Hines and Bazemore, 2003).…”

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Wai

2016

The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles

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This case study explores a dynamic process of strategic change involving the New York City Police Department Community Precinct Councils, the advisory structures designed to facilitate engagement between communities and police precincts in neighbourhoods across New York City. The initiative included an active process of agency and precinct council involvement in leadership and police staff dialogues and feedback surveys to explore management and operational issues, new needs and suggestions to increase the vitality and functioning of these important civic bodies. Challenges of engaging in the change process are assessed, with communication and partnerships emerging as central themes.

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Police-community partnerships and responses to crime: Lessons from yeoville and observatory, Johannesburg

Cited by 18 publications

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Ethnopolitics, Fear and Safety in a Johannesburg Neighbourhood

Ethnopolitics, Fear and Safety in a Johannesburg Neighbourhood

“Festivalisation” of Urban Governance in South African Cities: Framing the Urban Social Sustainability of Mega-Event Driven Development from Below

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