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Policing County LinesDrug Market Priorities

Policing County Lines: Drug Market Priorities [The data and analysis presented in the previous two chapters have suggested that initial police tactics and operational responses to County Lines were, if used at all, typically ineffective, symbolic and regularly fell back to habitual and arguably flawed methods of drug market policing. As perhaps depressingly familiar as some of this was, it is important to note that throughout the fieldwork, there was another contrasting ‘strand’ to the policing response I observed. Especially towards the latter part of the fieldwork period, this intensified around what could be understood broadly as the application of harm reduction principles (Bacon, Taking care of business: Police detectives, drug law enforcement and proactive investigation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016a; Kammersgaard, Harm reduction policing: From drug law enforcement to protection. Contemporary Drug Problems, 46(4), 345–362, 2019; Stevens, Applying harm reduction principles to the policing of retail drug markets. London: International Drug Policy Consortium, 2013). By way of further analysing the local responses to County Lines, but also in an attempt to theoretically develop this perspective and apply it within this specific contemporary context, this final empirical chapter presents a range of findings that specifically relate to it.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-54192-7
Pages
187 –219
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-54193-4_8
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[The data and analysis presented in the previous two chapters have suggested that initial police tactics and operational responses to County Lines were, if used at all, typically ineffective, symbolic and regularly fell back to habitual and arguably flawed methods of drug market policing. As perhaps depressingly familiar as some of this was, it is important to note that throughout the fieldwork, there was another contrasting ‘strand’ to the policing response I observed. Especially towards the latter part of the fieldwork period, this intensified around what could be understood broadly as the application of harm reduction principles (Bacon, Taking care of business: Police detectives, drug law enforcement and proactive investigation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016a; Kammersgaard, Harm reduction policing: From drug law enforcement to protection. Contemporary Drug Problems, 46(4), 345–362, 2019; Stevens, Applying harm reduction principles to the policing of retail drug markets. London: International Drug Policy Consortium, 2013). By way of further analysing the local responses to County Lines, but also in an attempt to theoretically develop this perspective and apply it within this specific contemporary context, this final empirical chapter presents a range of findings that specifically relate to it.]

Published: Oct 31, 2020

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