Community Policing, Governance, and Security

本项目旨在通过研究路易斯安那州新奥尔良市提出的问题和解决方案，探索不同的利益相关者如何应对有关社区警务和执法的全国性辩论。作为世界上监禁率最高的城市，新奥尔良是了解警务的理想场所。它还有一个社区警务项目，让研究人员有机会从方法上评估警察与公民的关系。当前，人们对警务意识的提高要求对警务进行全面的研究，以严格的、历史的、民族志的分析为基础。该项目将训练研究生以科学为基础和经验数据收集的方法。项目研究结果也将呈现给非学术受众，从而改进向公众传播科学的努力。该项目制定了明确的计划，与政策界、警察组织和社区组织就这一主题进行接触，让利益攸关方参与与政策相关的合作。最后，该项目将扩大未被充分代表的群体在科学领域的参与。哈佛大学的劳伦斯·拉尔夫和艾莎·贝利索-德·杰苏斯博士将在路易斯安那州新奥尔良市进行一项关于警察与公民关系的人种学研究。不同的涉众如何理解社区中有效的警务、安全和治理方法的构成？通过采用定性调查、参与者观察、深度访谈、社交媒体分析、民族志测绘和基于团队的定性数据编码等混合方法，本研究有可能改变科学衡量和理解警察执法的方式。这项研究将推进警务、武力和治理的人类学理论。该项目承诺建立一个连贯的、可概括的模型，处理警察力量的复杂性，对人类学家、政治学家、社会心理学家、社会学家和犯罪学家非常有用，他们研究警察中的种族和社会差异、警察中的种族偏见，以及其他对警察使用武力的数据标准化表示困难的人。

This project seeks to explore how different stakeholders grapple with national debates about community policing and enforcement by examining the problems articulated and the solutions proposed in New Orleans, Louisiana. As the city with the highest rate of incarceration in the world, New Orleans is an ideal site to understand policing. It also has a community policing program in place that allows the researchers the opportunity to methodologically evaluate police-citizen relationships. The current climate of heightened awareness around policing demands a comprehensive study of policing, rooted in rigorous, historical, ethnographic analysis. The project would train graduate students in methods of scientifically-grounded and empirical data collection. Project findings will also be presented to non-academic audiences, improving efforts to communicate science to the public. The project has clear plans to engage with the policy community, police organizations, and community organizations on this topic, engaging stakeholders in policy-relevant collaborations. Lastly, the project would broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences.Dr. Laurence Ralph and Dr. Aisha Beliso-De Jesus of Harvard will conduct and ethnographic study of police-citizen relations in New Orleans, Louisiana. How do different stakeholders understand what constitutes effectives methods of policing, security, and governance in this community? Through a mixed-methodological approach that employs qualitative surveys, participant observation, in-depth interviews, social media analysis, ethnographic mapping, and team-based qualitative data coding, this research has the potential to transform the way police enforcement is scientifically measured and understood. This research will advance anthropological theories of policing, force, and governance. The project promises coherent generalizable model that deals with the complexities of police force and will be useful to anthropologists, political scientists, social psychologists, sociologists, and criminologists who study the racial and social disparities in policing, racial bias among police officers, and others who have expressed difficulty in standardizing data on police use of force.