SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Atlantic, Compact Car, Informal Social Control
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Strategic approach where they bring officers towards community relations can work together to solve common problems generally involving crime. Police and community interaction (cid:498)maximize(cid:499) their time efficiently with communicating with the community. Break down the barrier between them and creating a stronger bond of trust. Symbolic leveling of the status hierarchy (bringing them down a notch, and are perceived as more equal when communicating with the public. Mutual state in trying to solve it together. Police microstations: mini departments with two cops who are assigned there for their entire shift to answer persons questions. Dencentralization and embedding order and control as a core production (with the departments assistance) Decentralization and embedding order and control as a co-production of pr and trust (public scores are now higher than they used to be) Crime, deinstitutionalization and racial tensions (pack up their stuff and go to other countries such as china and mexico) our most popular urban areas were getting gutted.