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*Police and Modern Democracy- Ada and Ashaye (Threats to Democratic …
*Police and Modern Democracy- Ada and Ashaye
Threats to Democratic Police
Democratic police should be viewed as a process not a outcome.
Democratic society job is to guard against the misuse of physical, psychological and moral coercion by police .
Police Special Powers to be a threat to democratic regimes. Potential for abuse is present
Demonstrate societies experiences a continual tension between the desire for order and the desire for liberty.
Democracy
Defining a democratic society is a police force that?
Publicly accountable
Can intervene in the life of citizens only under limited and carefully controlled circumstances
Subject to the rule of law embodying values respectful of human dignity than the wishes of a powerful leader or party.
Democratic societies show a wide variety in their police systems
Police
A quasi-military, rather decentralized, non-standardized, fragmented system.
The democratic police ideal is generally supported by a variety of organizational means including:
a division of labor between these who investigate, arrest, try, and punish;a quasi-military bureaucratic structure which limits discretion and tries to
create audit trails;the separation of police from the military and the creation of competing police
agencies rather than a monolith; external agencies (or compartmentalized parts of the organization) that monitor its behavior and that must give permission for certain highly intrusive actions;police who can be readily identified as such (e.g., in uniforms with names or
identification numbers and clearly marked cars), or in the case of undercover police whose identity is hidden:a courtroom trial in which police actions are deception is publicly revealed and Judged: and adequate compensation and working conditions comparable to at least the average level of the society.
On the one hand such police can serve as a check on public Police and Democracy:
Police and can enhance democracy through their independence. They (as with an independent press) can monitor and investigate police behavior and they can conduct parallel investigations.
By offering competition they may spur police to improve. They may also contribute to a more orderly society.Yet they may also undermine democracy.
Community Policing
Seeks to
immerse police
into a local community.(e.g., by a walking assignment to a particular neighborhood rather than by a patrol assignment by car to a large area)
Police are encouraged to view themselves as
community advocates
and to be problem-solving partners with a local community.
They should
anticipate
community needs and problems and intervene to solve them.