Charlottesville 2017: looking back and beyond the summer of hate
Crisis. A single word that has serious connotations. It suggests a time of intense danger, trouble, and difficulty. Crisis as a concept has been categorised into three types: creeping, slow-burn, and sudden. Its synonyms include words like calamity, emergency, catastrophe, and cataclysm. Each has a...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2025
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Routledge international handbook of policing crises and emergencies
Año: 2025, Páginas: 267-281 |
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Sumario: | Crisis. A single word that has serious connotations. It suggests a time of intense danger, trouble, and difficulty. Crisis as a concept has been categorised into three types: creeping, slow-burn, and sudden. Its synonyms include words like calamity, emergency, catastrophe, and cataclysm. Each has a foreboding, shadowing, and dampening effect. But this word also offers a sense of optimism and hope. A crisis also implies a turning point or an inflection point. Consequently, each crisis is a two-sided coin. It has a heads and a tails. It reflects real obstacles but can also serve as a projection of constructive opportunities. This chapter will serve as case study on the crisis and its ramifications affiliated with the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally. The city of Charlottesville and the Charlottesville Police Department will serve as the focal location and agency, respectively. The origin stories for this community and its municipal police department will be provided. Particular attention will be devoted to understanding how those local policies and related policing practices of the distant and not-so-distant past impacted the unfortunate and dystopian events on 11 and 12 August 2017 and beyond. The substantive component of this chapter will be the analysis of multiple after-action reports of the 2017 Unite the Right rally. This examination will be augmented by a review of press accounts, coupled with elite interviews of law enforcement professionals. Our analysis will highlight the lessons learned that could have righted or prevented the wrongs. Implications for future research, public policies, crisis management, and other professional and communal practices will be offered that can enhance community (re)conciliation and healing and benefit relational policing efforts in Charlottesville and beyond. |
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| Notas: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 278-281 |
| ISBN: | 9781032207872 |
