Police – The problematic of civil security forces in the U.S.
onlineOther than volunteer fire departments as a self-help organization aiming at protection and emergency response, policing can be described as a mode of violence in the fabrication / maintenance of social order.
Policing is a form of structuring urban as well as rural environments. Policing negotiates protection and service in the pursuit of justice – but the question of justice, and with it the very definition of crime, and of property, strongly depends on the needs and wishes of the hegemonial block.