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- Title
Policiamento Comunitário: Dicotomias e Imagens Fraturadas nas Práticas de Segurança Pública.
- Authors
Sousa Ferreira, Daniel Victor; Florindo Borges, Jacquelaine
- Abstract
Research objective: The objective of this research is to analyze the images that guide the community police practice of an Operational Unit of the Military Police of Minas Gerais. Theoretical framework: Studies on public security management and studies of social theory about the "community" and "the other". Methodology: The research was conducted based on the assumptions of an ethnomethodological approach, based on documentary research, interviews with police officers and managers, research on the social network of virtual interactions between police officers and the community and participant observation of police practices in the Rede de Vizinhos Protegidos program (Protected Neighbors Network). Results: The dichotomies between traditional policing and community policing - both repressive and preventive - produce fractured images of the police and civilians that guide police practice. The creators and enforcers of rules that define "the insiders" and "outsiders" of the community, through social stigmas, embody the fear of the "other" in police work, as well as the images of the policeman, friend and foe, and the images of "good citizens" and "bad guys". Originality: The research shows the role of a community policing practice in the construction of contemporary communities. Similar to what happened in the past, the basis for creating these communities seems to be the fear of otherness instead of empathy and dialogue with others.
- Subjects
MINAS Gerais (Brazil); COMMUNITY policing; MILITARY police; LAW enforcement; SOCIAL networks; SOCIAL sciences education; EMPATHY
- Publication
Journal Public Administration & Social Management / Administração Pública e Gestão Social, 2021, Vol 13, Issue 3, p58
- ISSN
2175-5787
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21118/apgs.v13i3.10486