Policing with a public health lens – Moving towards an understanding of crime as a public health issue

Sandra M. Bucerius, Temitope B. Oriola, D. J. Jones
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Policing organizations are currently experiencing more pressure than ever to address systemic racism and police brutality. Advocates and academics have suggested a range of changes, such as defunding the police, moving towards more body-worn cameras, ensuring higher educational levels of new recruits, implicit bias training, and so on. Our article draws attention and advocates for a different avenue: moving our understanding of crime towards a public health issue. By drawing on some data from the University of Alberta Prison Project, we argue that looking at justice clients with a public health lens would significantly change the way police are trained and respond to incidents. We believe this would have monumental consequences for both justice clients and policing organizations: justice clients will benefit from a police service that is trauma informed, compassionate, and understands their client base, while policing organizations will arguably increase their trust relationship with the public, therefore building legitimacy in the community.
从公共卫生的角度进行警务工作——逐步将犯罪视为一个公共卫生问题
警察组织目前面临着比以往任何时候都更大的压力,要求解决系统性的种族主义和警察暴行。倡导者和学者们提出了一系列的改革建议,比如减少对警察的拨款,增加随身携带的摄像头,确保新招募人员的教育水平更高,进行隐性偏见培训等等。我们的文章引起了人们的注意,并倡导了一条不同的途径:将我们对犯罪的理解转向公共卫生问题。通过借鉴阿尔伯塔大学监狱项目的一些数据,我们认为,从公共卫生的角度看待司法客户,将大大改变警察的培训和应对事件的方式。我们相信,这将对司法客户和警务组织都产生巨大的影响:司法客户将受益于一个了解创伤、富有同情心、了解其客户群的警察服务,而警务组织无疑将增加他们与公众的信任关系,从而在社区中建立合法性。
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