Abstract
In the US, Israel, and other democratic states, the police have been called to expand beyond their order-maintenance work to participate more and more deeply in the still-forming processes that are our societies’ adaptive responses to terrorism. As the US and Israel work to achieve and maintain order and safety in an age of terrorism, these efforts must be understood in relation to the ongoing work dealing with other persistent challenges to public safety. Engaging the police in fighting terrorism raises some unresolved dilemmas for society. The chapters in this volume have begun the complex work of uncovering how this transformative engagement of the police is already making subtle but likely irrevocable changes in the nature and strategies of policing and the character of the bonds between police and community. This chapter summarizes the key findings of the volume, examines the broader context confronting the police in an age of terrorism and beyond, and identifies areas for future research.
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The other functional imperatives are goal attainment, integration, and order maintenance or latency.
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Though Gallup’s “confidence” opinion polls date back to the 1970s, questions about the police, the criminal justice system, and other institutions were added later. The military and, in some years, the church rank ahead of the police. In contrast, the criminal justice system has been consistently among the institutions in which respondents express the least confidence.
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In only 33 of 86 countries were respondents more likely than not to express confidence in the police with respect to returning a lost wallet.
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Skogan et al.’s research also determined that Latinos of longer residence were more favorable toward the police.
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See a full inventory of the PERF symposium papers at: http://www.policeforum.org/library.asp?MENU=346.
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A story from Germany is apocryphal. A German police officer, upon stopping a vehicle for traffic violation, discovered the car was carrying individuals on a federal terrorist suspect “watch list.” Loud comments by the police officer, including his exclamation that individuals were on the watch list, were audible to federal investigators who had bugged the vehicle and had the suspects under surveillance for months. The suspects, who were released at the time, may have been tipped off by the police officer; they were apprehended days later while preparing explosive devices (Terror Suspects were Tipped Off, 2007).
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The easy comparability of the police to the military in Israel is partly due to other factors besides the decades-long fight against terrorist actions initiated from both within and outside Israel. (See Weisburd et al., forthcoming.)
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Feucht, T.E., Weisburd, D., Perry, S., Mock, L.F., Hakimi, I. (2009). Policing, Terrorism, and Beyond. In: Weisburd, D., Feucht, T., Hakimi, I., Mock, L., Perry, S. (eds) To Protect and To Serve. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73685-3_8
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