Community Policing
Channel: MentalHouse TV w/Khadijah
Date: 2021-08-18

You have a kid out after curfew. Does he get hauled home to mom, or does he get hauled to jail? Maybe they might have a little bit different perspective living inside the community, about whether or not something is even a problem than an outsider would. And they can actually choose, then, to take advantage of alternative mechanisms.
Ostrom’s qualitative research style was reflective of the qualitative gaps she saw in policing. She argued that consolidationists‘ hard data approach to policing not only missed problems on the ground but created them too. And many officers agree with her. .

I can tell my supervisors that I took three people to the hospital and I saved their lives. That the child that I helped deliver is healthy. I can tell them that, but that’s not gonna cut it. The culture of the department, the way they see it is that you’re not working unless you are writing summonses or arresting people.
All of these issues raise an important question. Why do we police our communities? Is it to meet quotas? To do work for the federal government? Or is it to keep communities safe for the people living in them? It’s easy for Hollywood to write scripts that get the friendly beat cop right every time. And it’s also easy to dwell on bad police work. But if we want humane policing that honors the dignity and diversity of our communities, it will mean removing the barriers to unique and diverse policing.


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