The Anthropology of Police

Karpiak, Kevin G.; Garriott, William

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“…If we excessively focus on and thus overinterpret the absurd things police officers -or other people for that matter -say, we risk not only misrepresenting our interlocutors but portraying them as malicious, antagonistic fools. Contrary to the humanizing endeavor, which Karpiak and Garriott (2018) have wisely made central to their anthropology of policing, by overinterpreting police bullshit we risk dehumanizing police officers, portraying them not only as evil-minded but also as simple-minded.…”

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“…Although examples of problematic Danish and Scandinavian policing do exist (cf. Schclarek Mulinari 2017, Sollund 2007b, Kalkan 2018, these are minor and infrequent in comparison with, for instance, police in the US (Chaney andRobertson 2013, Ralph 2018), the UK (Keith 1993, Delsol and Shiner 2006, Loftus 2009, Holdaway and O'Neill 2006, France (Fassin 2013a), The Netherlands (Mutsaers 2019), India (Jauregui 2016), South Africa (Hornberger 2011, Steinberg 2011, Diphoorn 2015 or Australia (Weber 2013), to mention a few other countries (see also Sluka 2010, Comaroff and Comaroff 2004, Garriott 2013, Weber and Bowling 2013, Fassin 2017, Karpiak and Garriott 2018. Nevertheless, in the above example, as well as in other examples that this article touches upon, the Danish detectives seemingly crossed moral lines in blunt and abysmal ways -in ways that were so obvious that they made it hard for me, the ethnographer, and for anyone else in the room, not to take notice.…”

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Police Bullshit

Sausdal

2020

JEA

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The police say brutal things. Research has documented how officers, when amongst themselves, talk about people in derogatory ways or openly fantasize about the use of excessive violence. In the literature, such backstage talk is in general analyzed in two ways: It is understood as proof of how the police really think – as evidencing police (im)morality or misconduct. Alternatively, scholars argue that police officers’ transgressive talk is a warped yet nevertheless meaning-generating way for them to deal with their, at times, harsh profession. Certainly, perspectives resonate with the empirical material of this article – an empirical material stemming from an ethnographic study of two Danish detective units. Yet, as this article argues, simply applying this analytical twofold would risk misrepresenting or, perhaps rather, overinterpreting the indeed brutal things the Danish detectives said. While some of the detectives’ language could/should be understood as representing police immorality or reflecting their troublesome profession, this article proposes a counterintuitive reading, namely that their vicious words were, paradoxically, often analytically ordinary. They were examples of “bullshitting” (Frankfurt 2009) – a genre of offensive talk yet, nevertheless, a genre with no specific internal nor intended meaning to it. Therefore, although (police and others’) bullshit is extremely evocative, and thus includes the risk of drawing the ethnographer in, one should be cautious about taking it too seriously. At least when it came to these Danish detectives, their vicious words habitually had little purchase on their general perceptions or practices. Their words were certainly distasteful but, really, just bullshit.

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Police Bullshit

Sausdal

2020

JEA

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“…The literature on police and policing in the social sciences is extensive (e.g., Bittner 1967;Fassin 2017;Jones and Newburn 2006;Sausdal 2018;Garriott 2013;Manning 2018). When looking in particular to anthropological work, it ranges from analyses of the work of (national) police actors (e.g., Karpiak and Garriott 2018;Jauregui 2013;Hornberger 2013) to the way policing is globalised (e.g., Hönke and Müller 2016). While discussing these debates in detail goes beyond the goals of this article, I will mention the relevant works within this body of literature that are useful for my argument.…”

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The Shifting Face of the Enemy: ‘Less than Lethal’ Weaponry and the Criminalised Protestor

Grassiani

2022

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

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From checkpoints in Palestine and cities in other war-torn places to Istanbul, Ferguson and Paris: anti-riot and other so called 'non-lethal' weaponry is used worldwide against civilians by government forces. The use of such violence (even if framed as 'non-or less-than-lethal') against protestors in major cities, often turning the city streets into scenes from battle fields, is worrying as it shows an increasing disrespect for human and civil rights by states with an obsession with 'keeping the order'. What is less visible, however, is how technologies and weapons that are used against protestors, and the ways they are marketed, (re)produce the image of the protestor as a legitimate target. Studying this process in more detail can help understand the criminalisation of protests and protestors along with other democratic tools.

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Structural competency in emergency medical education: A scoping review and operational framework

Salhi

Zeidan

Stehman

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AEM Education and Training

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Objectives Existing curricula and recommendations on the incorporation of structural competency and vulnerability into medical education have not provided clear guidance on how best to do so within emergency medicine (EM). The goal of this scoping review and consensus building process was to provide a comprehensive overview of structural competency, link structural competency to educational and patient care outcomes, and identify existing gaps in the literature to inform curricular implementation and future research in EM. Methods A scoping review focused on structural competency and vulnerability following Arksey and O’Malley’s six‐step framework was performed in concurrence with a multistep consensus process culminating in the 2021 SAEM Consensus Conference. Feedback was incorporated in developing a framework for a national structural competency curriculum in EM. Results A literature search identified 291 articles that underwent initial screening. Of these, 51 were determined to be relevant to EM education. The papers consistently conceptualized structural competency as an interdisciplinary framework that requires learners and educators to consider historical power and privilege to develop a professional commitment to justice. However, the papers varied in their operationalization, and no consensus existed on how to observe or measure the effects of structural competency on learners or patients. None of the studies examined the structural constraints of the learners studied. Conclusions Findings emphasize the need for training structurally competent physicians via national structural competency curricula focusing on standardized core competency proficiencies. Moreover, the findings highlight the need to assess the impact of such curricula on patient outcomes and learners’ knowledge, attitudes, and clinical care delivery. The framework aims to standardize EM education while highlighting the need for further research in how structural competency interventions would translate to an ED setting and affect patient outcomes and experiences.

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The Anthropology of Police

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The Shifting Face of the Enemy: ‘Less than Lethal’ Weaponry and the Criminalised Protestor

Structural competency in emergency medical education: A scoping review and operational framework

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