Citizens, cops, and power : recognizing the limits of community / Steve Herbert.

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Herbert, Steven Kelly, 1959-

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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (x, 180 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226327358
0226327353
0226327302
9780226327303
9786612537288
6612537280
1282537288
9781282537286

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Citizens, cops, and power.DDC classification:

363.2/3/0973 22

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HN90.C6 H47 2006

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Contents:

1. The terrain of community -- 2. The political status of community -- 3. Elusive legitimacy : subservient, separate, or generative? -- 4. "Don't drink the Kool-Aid" : on the resistance to community policing -- 5. "It is so difficult" : the complicated pathways of police-community relations -- 6. The unbearable lightness of community.

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Summary: Politicians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced community policing, hoping to reduce crime and disorder by strengthening the ties between urban residents and the officers entrusted with their protection. That strategy seems to make sense, but in Citizens, Cops, and Power, Steve Herbert reveals the reasons why it rarely, if ever, works. Drawing on data he collected in diverse Seattle neighborhoods from interviews with residents, observation of police officers, and attendance at community-police meetings, Herbert identifies the many obstacles that make effective collaboration between city dwellers and the police so unlikely to succeed. At the same time, he shows that residents' pragmatic ideas about the role of community differ dramatically from those held by social theorists. Surprising and provocative, Citizens, Cops, and Power provides a critical perspective not only on the future of community policing, but on the nature of state-society relations as well.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-177) and index.

Politicians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced community policing, hoping to reduce crime and disorder by strengthening the ties between urban residents and the officers entrusted with their protection. That strategy seems to make sense, but in Citizens, Cops, and Power, Steve Herbert reveals the reasons why it rarely, if ever, works. Drawing on data he collected in diverse Seattle neighborhoods from interviews with residents, observation of police officers, and attendance at community-police meetings, Herbert identifies the many obstacles that make effective collaboration between city dwellers and the police so unlikely to succeed. At the same time, he shows that residents' pragmatic ideas about the role of community differ dramatically from those held by social theorists. Surprising and provocative, Citizens, Cops, and Power provides a critical perspective not only on the future of community policing, but on the nature of state-society relations as well.

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