CRIM 3655 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Community Policing, Institutional Racism, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
14 Dec 2016
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Policing has become one of the most controversial and newsworthy topics of late. A constellation approach versus a binary approach to understanding policing. Binary thinking is based on seeing things in a simple positive or negative, black and white, either/or way. This is too limiting to give us full understanding of the complexity of social issues. It is also not a feature of critical thinking. Personal racism versus institutional racism and discrimination. http://blacklivesmatter. com/ To serve and protect who? http://www. citynews. ca/2016/06/15/senior-toronto-police-officer-guilty-of-g20- misconduct-to-be-sentenced-wednesday/ https://www. thestar. com/news/crime/2016/06/15/mark-fenton-sentencing- for-g20-kettling. html. Is police work glamorous or dangerous? http://www. cbc. ca/news/canada/ottawa/troubled-cops-need-more-government- help-mental-health-experts-say-1. 2788319 https://www. washingtonpost. com/local/police-officers-are-killed-dealing-with- domestic-violence-and-other-problems-we-ignore/2016/02/29/cdde4a4c-defb- Do you want to deal with and put your life at risk for people who lie to your face when you are called there to help them? http://bluelivesmatter. blue/ The police as merely one element of society"s institutional makeup. Police in the wider maintenance of social order. Change in value and the way people are secured.
