Chapter 3 Flashcards
In order to identify communities, this method relied on identifying central locators, such as businesses, churches, and schools, and then drawing the community’s boundary lines by finding those living the furthest away who still use those services.
The Chicago Schol technique
Tonnies distinguished between the local community versus the larger society. What was his term for larger society?
larger society=gesellschaft
Tonnies distinguished between the local community versus the larger society. What was his term for the local community?
local community-gemeinschaft
It is important for community policing officers and police executives to be able to identify where a community exists within their jurisdiction. This is essential for assignment of officer, the collection of information about citizen needs;and the provision of community services. A community may be marked by the following features: (6)
- The presence or absence of businesses
- The location of churches, schools, community associations, or neighborhood centers
- Residential groupings and points of transition from single-family to multi-family units or apartments
- Homogeneity of economic, occupational, or ethnic characteristics
- Physical characteristics like railroads, streets, parks, and gated residences, or
- A collection of shared interest
This stampeded white homeowners intoselling homes of because of the fear that African-American failed moving in would inevitably cause property values to plunge
Blockbusting
Economic shifts have contributed to a growing underclass in American society. How many Americans now live in poverty.
more than 43 millions
The book mentions certain factors that ruptured the ties between geography and community:
- Economic changes (particularly the outsourcing of labor & the inequity of the distribution of materials)
- Dislocation wrought by globalization and greed
The book mentions 3 types of affordable technology that allows those with sufficient resources to make bonds based on a community of interest without regard for geography or mutual dependency: (3)
- automobile
- telephone
- Internet
The book mentions three businesses that have driven locally owned and operated business out of existence (in regards to the destruction of community economics and sense of community): (3)
- fast-food chains
- mall-like department stores
- multinational oil companies
Our tolerance for diversity and our ability to solve human problems have been limited by: (2)
- reliance on formal social institutions
2. a growing alienation from community
Not only has Americans society become stratified in this three-tiered hierarchy (under and lower, middle and upper class), communities have also changed because of fairly recent emergence of these:
Planned communities
Planned communities upset the natural balance, whether it is low-income public housing or an upscale enclave. What do all planned communities have in common?
Their rapid appearance thrusts large numbers of people together who have no history.
Part of the challenge for community policing is to help revive the idea that those who live in the same area can improve the quality of community life by understanding how they share this:
a community of mutual interests
Unless fear is channeled into positive change, it can degenerate into: (3)
- apathy
- social isolation
- vigilantism and rioting
Several cities have experienced a sometimes violent resistance to the movement of upper-middle class residents into traditionally lower in working-class areas, that is, the process that has been referred to as:
Gentrification
Regardless of the neighborhood, any new community policing effort starts with face-to-face meetings with these people:
Average citizens
If only one lesson is to be learned from our examination of community it is that these make communities.
- social interactions
2. processes
Policing can no longer afford to use arrest rates, service calls, crime rates, and the issuance of traffic tickets as the measure of their success: they must begin to measure:
- the attributes of the community
2. community interaction
Many community policing efforts specifically tart the most vulnerable singling them out for protection offers the promise of encouraging everyone to participate. Who is considered the most vulnerable?
- elderly
- women
- children
- Minorities
This is a welcome by-product of community policing is and it remain a major barrier in developing a true sense of community.
Improved race relations
The University of Chicago’s Albert Hunter argued that these help identify what he called the “natural community”.
Both language and shared symbols
These offer Police Departments a way to listen to their citizens and hear what is being said about that apartment, crime, the quality of life, and events. They also offer the department the ability to shape the conversation.
Social media tools
This is a communicative network of people who interact through technologies for social purposes and to exchange information and ideas about mutual interests.
A virtual community
These can provide virtually unlimited access to large number of users. Reports and notifications can be archived, and links to other agencies and resources can make volumes of information easily accessible.
Web portals
These have the potential to become virtual communities where people gather online to participate in a community of interest.
Web forums
This offers a potentially powerful tool for providing a secure environment for sharing information. Designed to facilitate collaboration. Groove provides a law enforcement agency with the ability to invite specific users into a secure vital workspace.
Microsoft Office Groove
