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poor police CommunityRelations8 CHAPTER115 IntroductionThere are many reasons why the police have difficult interactions with thecommunities they are supposed to serve and protect. Many of these stemfrom the fact that overall, police departments have contrasting perspectives, poor communications, and concerns about the nature of social control in afree society (Radalet and Carter, 1994, p. 7). The police deal with the community on several levels: individually, as agroup/organization, and as political actors. When it appears that lawenforcement represents the interests of the communities in which theypolice, there is general harmony. When police are out of sync with thesesentiments, there is discontent and dissention. Also, keep in mind that Dif-ferent community groups view the police differently and have varyingnotions of the priorities and objectives of law enforcement and criminal jus-tice (Cordner and Scarborough, 2007: 10).
116 Chapter 8 Poor Police–Community Relations However, if one of these component parts is all there is, police–community relations can be quite problematic. Public Relations Many times police–community relations is primarily the practice of public
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