Community and Policing

该项目审查了城市邻里居民和警察在努力实施社区治安时动员起来的“社区”的定义。这场当代的改革运动寻求通过公民和警察之间更具建设性的互动来减少犯罪。然而，社区警务假定有一个连贯的“社区”，可以以控制犯罪的名义组织起来。在城市社区，这种假设是值得怀疑的。具体地说，这项研究将探索社区政治中固有的四个关键紧张：差异、规模、义务和互动的紧张。试图组织社区就是含蓄地问：谁被包括和排除？该组织的组织规模有多大？可以要求个人承担哪些义务？社区如何与其他权力机构互动？该项目将通过对居民和官员进行深入的定性研究，研究如何在西雅图的一个社区解决这些问题。居民数据将包括深入访谈、焦点小组讨论和社区小组会议观察。警方的数据将包括顺风车，以及对所有对研究社区负有责任的警察进行的非正式采访。对这些数据的分析将揭示关于社区的隐含假设，这些假设塑造了居民和官员之间的互动方式。它还将揭示社区组织的核心紧张局势如何在这些互动中得到解决和潜在的解决。

This project examines the definitions of "community" that are mobilized by both urban neighborhood residents and by police in efforts to implement community policing. This contemporary reform movement seeks to reduce crime through more constructive interactions between citizens and the police. However, community policing assumes that there is a coherent "community" that can be organized in the name of crime control. In urban neighborhoods, this assumption is questionable. Specifically, this research will explore four critical tensions inherent in community politics: tensions of difference, scale, obligation, and interaction. To try to organize community is to implicitly ask: Who is included and excluded? At what scale does the group organize? What obligations can individuals be asked to assume? And how does the community interact with other agencies of power? This project will study how these questions are addressed in a neighborhood in Seattle through intensive qualitative research with both residents and officers. The resident data will include in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and observation of community group meetings. The police data will include ride-alongs and informal interviews with all officers with any responsibility for the study neighborhoods. Analysis of these data will reveal the implicit assumptions about community that shape how both residents and officers interact with one another. It will also reveal how the central tensions of community organizing are addressed and potentially resolved in these interactions.