SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Police Use Of Firearms In The United Kingdom, Neoconservatism, Private Police
14 Jun 2018
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Lecture 8
Private Policing: Public Good or Corporate Power?
• We are more likely to be policed and managed by private sector than by public sector
• Charter does not cover rights under private sector, only public sector
Chapter 12: should policing be privatized?
• How can we explain the rise of private policing?
• Can private policing achieve public safety?
• How can we hold private police accountable?
• What are the implications of private policing for the state’s right to use legitimate
coercion?
Private Policing:
• Protection of corporate spaces and elites
• Limited oversight and regulation of hiring/training
• No right to legitimate coercion
Public Policing:
• Regulation and oversight of hiring/training/use of force
• Civilian oversight
• Legitimate coercion
• Politics: tough on crime, harm reduction
Changes to Policing Powers (rise of power elites: crisis of capital):
• 1850s-1940s:
• Union strike breaking
• Anti-vagrancy (anti-homelessness)
• Slave patrols
• Indian agents
• Unarmed police
• 1950-1990:
• National and state level policing: urban uprising
• 2000s:
• Privatized policing: corporate spaces
Increased militarization, media: chaos and dangerous
Policing the Crisis:
• 1940-1960: Keynesian welfarism
• Civil rights protections; public safety through welfarism
• 1970s: Collapse of world markets
• Massive restructuring and layoffs
• Protest and dissent amongst middle class
• Civil rights, anti-war protests
• Militarization of public police forces for street level deployment
• 1990s: Deepening of social inequality
• Private policing to protect corporate spaces and interests
Welfarism to Neoconservatism to neo-liberalism
• Welfarism: social rights, housing, income, security, healthcare
• Neoconservatism: Moral panics of ghetto violence; need war on crime and drugs, mass
incarceration
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Document Summary
Private policing: public good or corporate power: we are more likely to be policed and managed by private sector than by public sector, charter does not cover rights under private sector, only public sector. Private policing: protection of corporate spaces and elites, limited oversight and regulation of hiring/training, no right to legitimate coercion. Public policing: regulation and oversight of hiring/training/use of force, civilian oversight, legitimate coercion, politics: tough on crime, harm reduction. Changes to policing powers (rise of power elites: crisis of capital): 1850s-1940s, union strike breaking, anti-vagrancy (anti-homelessness, slave patrols. Indian agents: unarmed police, 1950-1990, national and state level policing: urban uprising, 2000s, privatized policing: corporate spaces. Welfarism to neoconservatism to neo-liberalism: welfarism: social rights, housing, income, security, healthcare, neoconservatism: moral panics of ghetto violence; need war on crime and drugs, mass incarceration, neoliberalism: gentrification of inner cities, paying customers only, gated communities private security.
