Abstract

TRUCHET, Rocío María. The police ate our police: Tensions surrounding the re-functionalization of the Santa Fe Community Police. Rev. Pilquen. secc. cienc. soc. [online]. 2021, vol.24, n.3, pp.96-108. ISSN 1851-3123.

The present work aims to understand the re-functionalization of the Community Police of the Province of Santa Fe: a police segment with broad citizen legitimacy that was born from a progressive reform in 2013. From a perspective inspired by Michel Foucault, we analyze this new force as an effect of power of political disputes towards the definition of the police function in the government of (in)security. The results indicate that the Community Police was dismantled from a political process that was oriented to govern the problem of crime through techniques that articulated managerialist and conservative rationalities of militarized sectors that occupied important positions in police policy. The methodology adopted is qualitative and applies critical discourse analysis in a corpus constructed from interviews with key informants and documentation from primary and secondary sources.

Keywords : Community policing; Police Reform; Government of security; Militarization; Managerialism.

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