Citizens, Cops, and Power Recognizing the Limits of Community

Name: Citizens, Cops, and Power Recognizing the Limits of Community
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ISBN: 9780226327310

ISBN-10: 0226327310

ISBN-13: 9780226327310

Edition: 2006

Authors: Steve Herbert

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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.nbsp; 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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.90" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Terrain of Community



The Political Status of Community



Elusive Legitimacy: Subservient, Separate, or Generative?



"Don't Drink the Kool-Aid": On the Resistance to Community Policing



"It Is So Difficult": The Complicated Pathways of Police-Community Relations



The Unbearable Lightness of Community


Notes


Index