Negotiating Demands: Politics of Skid Row Policing in Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Vancouver (Heritage)

__Negotiating Demands__ is an original and thought-provoking study that not only advances our knowledge of police organization and decision-making strategies but also refines our understanding of how processes of social inclusion and exclusion occur in different liberal regimes and how they can be addressed.

The relationship between policing and the governance of society is an important and complex one, especially as it relates to destitute areas. Through a comparative analysis of policing in skid row districts in three cities – Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Vancouver – Negotiating Demands offers an inside look at the influence of local political, moral, and economic issues on police practices within marginalized communities.

Through an analysis of various theoretical approaches and ethnographic field data, Laura Huey unveils a portrait of skid row policing as a political process. Police are regularly called upon to negotiate often-conflicting sets of demands, especially within the context of disadvantaged or troubled neighbourhoods. Examining a broad spectrum of police procedures and community responses, Huey offers a reconceptualization of the police as political actors who 'negotiate demands' of different constituencies. How the police meet these demands – through incident- and context-specific uses of law enforcement, peacekeeping, social work, and knowledge work – are shown to be a product of the civic environment in which they operate and of the 'moral-economic' forces that shape public discourse.

Negotiating Demands is an original and thought-provoking study that not only advances our knowledge of police organization and decision-making strategies but also refines our understanding of how processes of social inclusion and exclusion occur in different liberal regimes and how they can be addressed.

The relationship between policing and the governance of society is an important and complex one, especially as it relates to destitute areas. Through a comparative analysis of policing in skid row districts in three cities Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Vancouver—Negotiating Demands offers an inside look at the influence of local political, moral, and economic issues on police practices within marginalized communities.

Through an analysis of various theoretical approaches and ethnographic field data, Laura Huey unveils a portrait of skid row policing as a political process. Police are regularly called upon to negotiate often-conflicting sets of demands, especially within the context of disadvantaged or troubled neighbourhoods. Examining a broad spectrum of police procedures and community responses, Huey offers a reconceptualization of the police as political actors who 'negotiate demands' of different constituencies. How the police meet these demands—through incident- and context-specific uses of law enforcement, peacekeeping, social work, and knowledge work—are shown to be a product of the civic environment in which they operate and of the 'moral-economic' forces that shape public discourse.

Negotiating Demands is an original and thought-provoking study that not only advances our knowledge of police organization and decision-making strategies but also refines our understanding of how processes of social inclusion and exclusion occur in different liberal regimes and how they can be addressed.

"The relationship between policing and the governance of society is an important and complex one, especially as it relates to destitute areas. Through a comparative analysis of policing in skid row districts in three cities - Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Vancouver - Negotiating Demands offers an inside look at the influence of local political, moral, and economic issues on police practices within marginalized communities." "Through an analysis of various theoretical approaches and ethnographic field data, Laura Huey unveils a portrait of skid row policing as a political process. Police are regularly called upon to negotiate often-conflicting sets of demands, especially within the context of disadvantaged or troubled neighbourhoods. Examining a broad spectrum of police procedures and community responses, Huey offers a reconceptualization of the police as political actors who 'negotiate demands' of different constituencies. How the police meet these demands - through incident - and context-specific uses of law enforcement, peacekeeping, social work, and knowledge work - are shown to be a product of the civic environment in which they operate and of the 'moral-economic' forces that shape public discourse." "Negotiating Demands is an original study that not only advances our knowledge of police organization and decision-making strategies but also refines our understanding of how processes of social inclusion and exclusion occur in different liberal regimes and how they can be addressed."--Jacket This book examines the influence of local political, moral, and economic issues on police practices with poor and marginalized communities through an examination of skid-row policing in three cities - Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Vancouver. It describes skid row policing as a political process, in which police are regularly called upon to negotiate often-conflicting sets of demands. Examining a broad spectrum of police procedures and community responses, the author reconceptualises the police as political actors who 'negotiate demands' of different constituencies. How the police meet these demands - through incident- and context-specific uses of law enforcement, peacekeeping, social work, and knowledge work - are shown to be a product of the civic environment in which they operate and of the 'moral-economic' forces that shape public discourse Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Tables 9 Illustrations 11 Introduction: Shooting Up on Adam Smith’s Grave 13 1. Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Policing of the Skids 21 2. Alkies, Smackheads, and Ordos: Skid Row under Ordoliberalism 50 3. Community Policing as Knowledge Work 68 4. Junkies, Drunks, and the American Dream: Neo-liberal Skid Row 96 5. Enforcing the Law with Broken Windows 113 6. Crazies, Crack Addicts, and the ‘Middle Way’ 144 7. Peacekeeping through Saturation 161 8. Policing as the Art of Negotiating Demands 192 9. ‘A Community Gets the Policing That It Wants’ 221 Appendix: Research Methods 229 Notes 235 References 243 Index 259