‘Set up to fail?’ An analysis of self-administered indigenous police services in Canada

Kiedrowski, John; Jones, Nicholas A.; Ruddell, Rick

doi:10.1080/15614263.2017.1363973

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“…While the term enhanced policing has not been formally used by the federal government since 2014, the issue of delivering enhanced policing services was examined by the OAG (2014, p. 13) with regard to the RCMP contract policing arrangements, who noted that, "In our view, the lack of clarity in the agreements and among the involved parties about what constitutes enhanced policing services-which the First Nations Policing Program is intended to fund-creates ambiguity in the delivery of those services." A similar argument can be extended to the SA policing agreements, and the challenge for these agencies is to provide core policing while being funded as an enhanced or supplemental service (DPRA Canada, 2016;Kiedrowski et al, 2017;Prairie Research Associates, 2006).…”

Section: The Evolution Of the First Nations Policing Programmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Our commentary focuses on contextual changes in rural Indigenous policing in order to better understand the challenges SA and contract policing organizations must overcome in order to deliver good policing. Although the FNPP was introduced to provide a national framework to deliver Indigenous policing, there is growing recognition of shortcomings in both the funding arrangements and the manner that contracted and SA policing services are delivered (CCA, 2019;Deer, 2019;Kiedrowski et al, 2017;Leuprecht, 2017;. Having identified the changing context for Indigenous policing, we found that many stakeholders are critical of the existing policing model.…”

Section: Police Reforms and The Future Of Indigenous Policingmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Although the FNPP was founded with a great deal of optimism and good intentions, a series of evaluations reveals that the actual delivery of police services suffers from a number of shortcomings (Hunter-Courchene Consulting Group, 2014;OAG, 2014;Public Safety Canada, 2010;. About one-third of the fledgling SA police services established after the introduction of the FNPP were disbanded, and Kiedrowski, Jones, and Ruddell (2017) question whether these agencies were set up to fail. They conclude that these organizations, like many other First Nations programs funded by provincial and federal governments, were treated with benign neglect and their struggles ignored.…”

Section: The Evolution Of the First Nations Policing Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reforming Indigenous policing: Understanding the context for change

Ruddell

Kiedrowski

2020

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Protests over the policing of Black and Indigenous people and people of Colour that started after the death of George Floyd in May 2020 at the hands of the Minneapolis police set the stage for debates about the role of the Canadian police in ensuring public safety. These protests have resulted in calls for police reforms, including reallocating police funding to other social spending. The public’s attention has focused on urban policing, and there has been comparatively little focus on policing rural Indigenous communities. We address this gap in the literature, arguing that Indigenous policing is distinctively different than what happens in urban areas and the challenges posed in these places are unlike the ones municipal officers confront. We identify ten specific challenges that define the context for Indigenous policing that must be considered before reforms are undertaken. Implications for further research and policy development are identified, including founding a commission to oversee First Nations policing.

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Section: The Evolution Of the First Nations Policing Programmentioning

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Section: Police Reforms and The Future Of Indigenous Policingmentioning

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Reforming Indigenous policing: Understanding the context for change

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Kiedrowski

2020

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“…pipeline protests, First Nations protests, etc. ), leaving the illicit economy to boom in the context of an economically struggling formal social order (Griffiths, 2019; Kiedrowski et al., 2017; Marquis, 2016; Monaghan & Walby, 2012, 2017; Pasternak, 2016; Preston et al., 2012; Prowse, 2013; Ruddell, 2011; Swastsky et al., 2017; Walby & Monaghan, 2011). While petroleum prices plummet, the costs of production do not, and crimes perpetrated through the procedures, practices and processes of resource extraction go un-policed (Sheptycki, 2016).…”

Section: Thinking About Police and Policing During A Time Of Plaguementioning

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The politics of policing a pandemic panic

Sheptycki

2020

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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This essay was completed in early April 2020 and begun during the first week of the official pandemic panic in Canada. The world-wide plague caused by the COVID-19 virus precipitated the first global police event presenting an occasion for researchers and scholars to apply existing theory and empirical understanding to extra-ordinary circumstances. Consideration of the politics of the police during the plague reveals a tectonic shift in the world system. The transnational and comparative study of police and policing reveals the contours of the emerging system of world power all the more clearly in a moment of crisis. The pandemic panic presents an historical moment during which, figuratively speaking, policing power crystalizes and can be seen clearly. On the global stage, in response to the pandemic panic authoritarian and totalitarian policing practices are demonstrated alongside those in putative democracies. Emerging and observable practices of rule by law are antithetical to democratic policing in the general social interest, and rule of law rhetoric justifying militarized law enforcement action in many places continues to bring police into further disrepute. The coming era will continue to be a time where, in most places “the strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must”—as the ancient historian Thucydides observed in the aftermath of the fratricidal Peloponnesian War more than two millennia ago. The pandemic panic shows in the starkest statistical numbers that, where social justice is achieved, the outcome of the politics of the police is not the command of the sovereign.

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“…For instance, pre-1900s departments (political era organizations) were less likely to employ civilians than younger (reform era) departments (King, 1999). Life cycle research has also identified factors associated with police department disbanding, including lack of funding, internal crises, and small size (Kiedrowski, Jones, & Ruddell, 2017; King, 2014).…”

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Organizational Decline and Fiscal Distress in Municipal Police Agencies

Giblin

Nowacki

2017

Police Quarterly

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In late 2007, the United States entered one of the most significant recessions in recent memory. While the consequences to individuals have been well documented, less attention has been paid to the effects on state-sponsored organizations such as police agencies. The current study examines fiscal distress (e.g., layoffs, hiring freezes) in a sample of large municipal law enforcement agencies. According to a framework proposed by Levine, departments should be most vulnerable to fiscal distress when the jurisdiction experiences economic shocks (environmental entropy), the demand for police services declines (problem depletion), the political system becomes less supportive of police agencies (political vulnerability), and the organization becomes more structurally complex (organizational atrophy). Structural equation modeling results suggest that fiscal distress is driven by the local economic context, changing crime rates, and organizational size. This research has implications for helping organizations address future economic declines.

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‘Set up to fail?’ An analysis of self-administered indigenous police services in Canada

Cited by 14 publications

References 15 publications

Reforming Indigenous policing: Understanding the context for change

Reforming Indigenous policing: Understanding the context for change

The politics of policing a pandemic panic

Organizational Decline and Fiscal Distress in Municipal Police Agencies

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