The Slow Violence Of Contemporary Policing. Violent crime plays a minuscule role in the day of a modern officer who spends most of his or her time driving around taking ho-hum radio calls and performing the tertiary duties of traffic. In this review we describe the slow violence that contemporary policing practices disproportionately inflict on people of color.
The average number of crimes for the 1 percent of streets that produced about a quarter of the crime. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of full-text books. A related issue is that of emotional attachment or compassion.
The underlying problem with policing isnt just the lack of oversight policies more training and better procedures.
This means that police services are failing to capture valuable skills that could help to deliver more gender-responsive and better-quality policing and a safer society for all. Police have responded to this criticism by employing community policing reforms intended to gain the trust of the people they serve. In a pattern that is repeated the world over environmental risks are commonly placed in the path of least resistance near communities with the smallest reserves of political economic and social capital. The underlying problem with policing isnt just the lack of oversight policies more training and better procedures.