{"id":3609,"date":"2012-09-30T23:40:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T04:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2012-09-30T23:40:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T04:40:51","slug":"offbeat-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2012\/09\/30\/offbeat-policing\/","title":{"rendered":"Offbeat Policing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3611\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/proimos\/5930810489\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3611\" title=\"Patrol Cops\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2012\/09\/cops.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Alex E. Proimos via flickr.com\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Alex E. Proimos via flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beat cops \u2013 and the community-oriented policing projects they practice \u2013 are on the decline says <a title=\"Suhir Venkatesh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudhirvenkatesh.org\" target=\"_blank\">Sudhir Venkatesh<\/a>, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p>In an article appearing last week in <a title=\"The New Republic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/politics\/107675\/how-big-brother-killing-community-policing#\" target=\"_blank\">The New Republic<\/a>, Venkatesh notes that tackling current crime concerns increasingly requires a partnership of federal resources, such as hi-tech gadgetry, and local knowledge of criminal networks. But to support these collaborative taskforces, \u201c[t]he Feds are getting a bigger share of funding, while [local police] are forced to continually make layoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Venkatesh argues that this isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing. In many ways, joint taskforces have delivered. In addition to racking up arrests and convictions, \u201c[Chicago] [r]esidents felt safer using public spaces, storeowners experienced less extortion, and even gang members exited their organizations at a greater rate after a federal operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, while traditional community policing may be outmoded for today\u2019s complex investigations, Venkatesh also warns that cuts have had unintended consequences. Fewer cops on the street has created vacuums\u00a0\u2013 opening the door for solutions from local gangs and vigilantes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beat cops \u2013 and the community-oriented policing projects they practice \u2013 are on the decline says Sudhir Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. In an article appearing last week in The New Republic, Venkatesh notes that tackling current crime concerns increasingly requires a partnership of federal resources, such as hi-tech gadgetry, and local knowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":973,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39116,17208,12882],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-crime","tag-neighborhoods","tag-policing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/973"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3624,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions\/3624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}