Community Policing, Governance, and Security

该项目旨在通过审查路易斯安那州新奥尔良提出的问题和提出的解决方案，探索不同的利益攸关方如何应对关于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，新奥尔良是了解警察的理想地点。它还制定了一个社区警务计划，让研究人员有机会从方法上评估警察与公民的关系。当前提高人们对警务的认识的氛围要求对警务进行全面研究，这种研究植根于严格的、历史的、人种学的分析。该项目将对研究生进行科学基础和实证数据收集方法方面的培训。项目成果也将向非学术受众展示，以加强向公众传播科学的努力。该项目有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有关的协作。最后，该项目将扩大未被充分代表的群体对科学的参与。劳伦斯·拉尔夫和哈佛大学的Aisha Beliso-de Jesse博士将对路易斯安那州新奥尔良的警察和公民关系进行人种学研究。不同的利益相关者如何理解什么构成了这个社区中有效的治安、安全和治理方法？通过采用定性调查、参与者观察、深度访谈、社交媒体分析、民族志绘图和基于团队的定性数据编码的混合方法，这项研究有可能改变对警察执法的科学衡量和理解方式。这项研究将推进关于警察、武力和治理的人类学理论。该项目承诺建立一个连贯的通用模型，处理警察部队的复杂性，并将对人类学家、政治学家、社会心理学家、社会学家和犯罪学家有用，他们研究警察中的种族和社会差异、警察中的种族偏见，以及其他表示难以标准化警察使用武力的数据的人。

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.