Public Police Thyselves! - Deadly Force and Public Disorder, Two Crises in British Community Policing

• NCJ Number: 99884
• Journal: Police Studies Volume: 8 Issue: 3 Dated: (Fall 1985) Pages: 133-148
• Author(s): D W Jackson
• Date Published: 1985
• Length: 17 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Historical Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This paper examines the origins of policing without firearms in Britain, and seeks to suggest explanations of why unarmed policing has been sustained, for most purposes, since the founding of the modern British police.

Abstract

The origins, traditions and factors that seem to have sustained unarmed policing are examined also in the contemporary context of perceived rising rates of armed crime and public disorder, especially the riots of the summer of 1981. The paper is based principally on interviews with senior police officials at nineteen forces in 1981. (Publisher abstract)