RT Article
T1 Safe at home?: policing the U.S. hometown in a post 9/11 environment
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 50
IS 1/2
SP 47
OP 58
A1 Kerlikowske, R. Gil
LA English
YR 2008
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882034457
AB Despite the prominence of terrorism concerns on the national agenda, three areas of public policy pose more significant challenges for local law enforcement in the United States: illegal gun proliferation and distribution; offender incarceration and re-entry paths; and investments in the lives of children. This paper argues that the current direction of public policy in these latter areas should be a primary concern, because these policies not only impact law enforcement in a negative way, but also threaten the strength and vitality of the communities law enforcement is trying to serve. Moreover, the dangers posed by these policies are far more calculable, more likely and more destructive over the long run than those posited for more extreme, though less-likely threats, to which the U.S., as a nation, is committing enormous sums of money, for seemingly incremental, public safety benefits. The role of law enforcement executives is critical to how these issues will be addressed.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 57-58
K1 Advisory Council
K1 Assault Weapon
K1 Homeland Security
K1 Project Safe Neighborhood
K1 Violent Crime
DO 10.1007/s10611-008-9121-9