Watching Police, Watching Communities by Mike Mcconville

Watching Police, Watching Communities by Mike Mcconville

From the early 80s community policing has been held up as a new commitment to the ideals of service and the rejection of coercive policing styles. The idea was to encourage a partnership between the public and police in which community needs would be met by officers on local beats. Today, Government ministers and senior police officers depict Neighbourhood Watch, the centrepiece of the scheme, as a great success. However, Watching Police, Watching Communities reveals that most schemes are dormant or dead. The authors trace the causes of scheme failure to the lack of commitment to community policing by police forces. Most importantly, they find a police rank-and-file culture which celebrates aggression, machismo and the assertion of authority especially against areas occupied by ethnic minorities and other disadvantaged groups.

Dan Shepherd is an associate professor within the Department of Education at Missouri Western State University. Previously, Dr. Shepherd served as a public high school English teacher and as a public school administrator, both at the building and district levels.

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ISBN 13	9780415073646
ISBN 10	0415073642
Title	Watching Police, Watching Communities
Author	Mike Mcconville
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	1992-05-28
Number of pages	284
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