CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: William Bratton, Neoliberalism, Left Realism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1300
• Professor: Michael Kempa

Document Summary

Policing part 2: from professional to community policing. Community policing began as a critique of the professionalized model of policing the professionalized, bureaucratic, insulated model of policing was shown to produce all manners of problems. Community policing entails a redefinition of the functions and strategies of policing in terms of functions, community policing entails the public police turning away from merely being the experts in law enforcement. Community policing relies upon organizational decentralization and reorientation of patrol (foot patrol) in order to facilitate two-way communication between police and public. Principles of community policing: organization decentralization, problem oriented focus, responding to the priorities of the public, facilitating neighbourhood problem solving. Community policing has both soft and hard faces. This approach is concerned with analyzing and safe quarding the conduct of potential victims, vulnerable situations, and those routines of everyday life which create criminal opportunities as an unintended byproduct.