Police Forces pp 199-220 | Cite as

A Critique of Community Policing

  • William Lyons
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Part of the Studies in European Culture and History book series (SECH)

Abstract

On February 25, 2002, an Albany jury of four blacks and eight whites found NYPD officers Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon, Kenneth Boss, and Richard Murphy not guilty on all charges in the shooting death of Amadou Diallo. On the same day, Rafael Perez, a former officer of the LAPD Rampart Division’s CRASH unit (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums), who confessed to altering crime scenes and lying in court to frame innocent citizens, offered the following advice to other officers: “Whoever chases monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster himself.”2

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Social Capital Police Officer Social Control Public Safety Crime Control 
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Notes

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