Additionally, Jonathan Simon wonders whether more federal stimulus money for police officers will mean more people incarcerated (despite the state’s stated goal).The saving will go from an estimated $300 million this year instead of the estimated $520 million. The stripped-down version of the bill will reduce the prison population by 17,000 inmates by next June instead of 27,000. The California state Assembly watered down a bill intended to ease the state’s budget crisis by redusing the prison population.The whole affair does lead Moskos to inquire into the cost of operating such cars, and suggest that more green alternatives could be incentivized by offering cops who choose to patrol on foot $20-50 more per shift. Over at Cop in the Hood, Peter Moskos doesn’t lament Ford’s decision to stop manufacturing Crown Vic’s, the industry-standard in American cop cars, by 2011. In doing so, it shows that if security has become perhaps the dominant paradigm of the War on Terror in Western states, it is based not only upon expanded police powers and identity cards but also on a raft of more subtle cultural practices that respond to and inform actual political events. This book is especially welcome for the way it picks apart this process. This geographical unevenness in the manner and extent to which security is pursued through territorial proxy is sustained by cultural processes that normalise some definitions of security as they disavow others. While some states are being broken up into ever less state-like parts, making intervention an easier task, others are busy hardening their borders through the securitisation of immigration and asylum legislation. Simon Reid-Henry has an interesting review of the new edited volume by geographers Alan Ingram and Klaus Dodds, Spaces of Security and Insecurity: Geographies of the War on Terror in Times Higher Education : Or is the metric at play here that of “sublty” ?
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Several French police unions have denounced as “overly aggressive” and “lying accusations” a televised report, and interview of Interior Minister Hortefeux, by M6 television reporter Mélissa Theuriau.ĭuring a televised interview of Minister Hortefeux, Theuriau presented footage of a group of police officers forcing youth to the ground and suggested that such images “ridicule the police code of conduct.”įor his part Hortefeux suggested that the “presumption of innocence applies to police officers as well.” In the space of security, police are the opposite of culture? The President of the Republic also reminded police officers to “respect the basic rules of courtesy” when dealing with youth, and not to immediately revert to using the (impolite and overly-familiar) “tu” form of address. “Those of you who are tired, au revoir!”īut don’t be impolite about it. The answer, according to sarkozy? More work. These stats have been a bragging point for sarkozy over the last seven years. The reason for the suprise visit was the recent less-than-spectacular crime statistics, particularly in Loire. Nicolas Sarkozy recently surprised a meeting of the departmental Cheifs of the Police Nationale and Gendarmerie, who thought they were merely meeting with Minister of the Interior Brice Hotrefeux, with an unannounced visit.
If you’ve been so caught up in the story of the East Bay kidnapping uncovered by UC Berkeley police (for a cogent analysis, and some myth-busting regarding what parole can accomplish, see Jonathan Simon’s post over at Prawfsblog) that you haven’t had time for anything else, here’s another edition of Anthropoliteia In the News: «Ceux qui sont fatigués, au revoir!» Tags #Blacklivesmatter #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus American Anthropological Association American Anthropological Association Meetings American Anthropologist Anthropoliteia anthropology Anthropology of Policing Antipode applied anthropology BEATRICE JAUREGUI black black lives matter Brazil Canada community policing crime Crimea criminology Cultural Anthropology culture Didier Fassin drug trafficking ethnography Ferguson France gender human rights Ilana Feldman Immigration JEFFREY MARTIN justice Kevin Karpiak law mass incarceration Michael Brown Michel Foucault militarization military neoliberalism NYPD Pedagogy police police brutality police citizen interaction police violence policing power Prison prison population prisons Profiling protest protest movements protests Race racial profiling racism riots Russia Sameena Mulla security social media South Africa surveillance taser technology Trayvon Martin Ukraine United Kingdom United States use of force violence What's going on in Ukraine? white