Crime Control and Due Process

Two different missions - crime fighting and public service - can be identified as having quite different implications for decision making. We do not, of course, mean to say that these missions are necessarily contradictory or exclusive; however, it is important to note the history and present-day influence of these different roles.

When one asks most people what the role of policing is in society, the response is some version of “catch criminals” or “fight crime.” If one views police as public servants, presumptions are different and include the idea that criminals are not so different from us and, in fact, may be our sons or daughters.

Police officers, too, tend to perceive one role as dominant over the other and this perception shapes their daily behavior.

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[morenitamia]

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