Policing the media : street cops and public perceptions of law enforcement /

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Main Author: Perlmutter, David D., 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : Sage Publications, c2000
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Table of Contents:
  • Viewing and picturing cops. Looking back through the viewfinder. Wanting something to "happen". "Here's a good shot". "They'll think we're boring"
  • All the street's a stage. The dramaturgical metaphor. Approaching cops as viewers. The fog of the street
  • Prime-time crime and street perceptions. Televisual content. Street perceptions : police responses to the screen
  • Ethnography and police work
  • Observing the street cop
  • Front stage and back stage. The front stage. The back stage. Star power and control. Failed expectations and value judgments
  • The (real) mean world. In the same boat. Everyone is innocent. No respect from the audience. The system is against them : statistics as bullshit. Tales of decline. Conclusions : rebels against the public?
  • Real cops and mediated cops : can they "get along"?. Perceptions as effects. The struggle continues