EAN: 9783658397722

HOLDING DOWN THE FORT - AARON BIELEJEWSKI KARTO...

This Open-Access-book questions the relationship between institutionalized images and
understandings of policing - the monolithic ideas common to most  if not all  Western law
enforcement agencies - and contextual  situative  and local interactions where the human
representatives of policing - street-level officers - come into contact with residents. The
political and theoretical association of specific forms of Western policing with democratic
society can be illustrated in the case of German integration: narratives of reform and
essentially forging new democratic police agencies in the new German states stand at odds with
much of the experience and statements of officers who continued to serve following
(Re)Unification. Officers who present their works primarily in terms of their local
responsibilities  expectations and more specifically to their unique and individual
relationship and connection to their communities downplay the relevance of high-level policing
policy. Based on a two-year ethnographic study of policing in a rural county in the German
state of Brandenburg  this book explores the local nature of policing both in terms of how
police officers imagine their communities to be and with reference to broader societal
expectations and assumptions of what police  essentially  are  can effectively do  and should
effectively do.

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