Social Media is commonly used by policing organisations to spread the word on crime, weather, missing person, etc. In this work we aim to understand what attracts citizens to engage with social media policing content. To study these engagement dynamics we propose a combination of machine learning and semantic analysis techniques. Our initial research, performed over 3,200 posts from @dorsetpoli...

Technology acceptance in policing is under-researched, yet mobile devices are widely implemented across UK police forces. The paper validates a mobile technology acceptance model (M-TAM), developed in a single police force. It shows that the M-TAM is transferrable to other UK police Forces, and potentially worldwide. The influence of local supervision and fit of technology to roles and tasks ar...

This paper reports from an ongoing field study of police practice in Sweden. The field study consists of direct observations and conversational interviews. The paper discusses current police everyday practice in a district of Sweden in relation to the reactive policing model and to the problem oriented policing model. The paper proposes a tentative taxonomy combining the two models and discusse...

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In New YorkCity from 1971 to 1975, only 1.6 per cent of all police firearms discharges involved the class of people police have since come to call emo tionally disturbed persons (EDPs). Still, because po lice were comparatively unrestrained in those years, the number of such incidents was quite large: 46, or better than 9 per year.1 In theyears since then, police shootings have declined dramati...

A Review of Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall. By Anna Lvovsky.

If there had been no video of Derek Chauvin killing George Floyd on May 25, 2020, the legal and public response might have quite different. Before a series videos captured by witnesses security cameras surfaced, Minneapolis Police Department issued statement: “After got out his car, he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get suspect into handcuffs noted appeared be suffering med...