Summary
This dissertation explores community policing from the perspective of a racial minority. This research is designed to build on the need to draw community policing which cannot be achieved without an understanding of the various forms of exclusion. This study follows up on issues raised by current scholarship and themes noted in an array of state sponsored task forces. Given the wealth of information on community policing, an important goal of this research is to provide much needed and often overlooked ways in which forms of exclusion take place in the discourse on community policing. The politicized rhetoric of community policing signals a rejection of narrow, reactive law enforcement and depoliticized images of policing. What role does racism, law and crime play in elements of community policing as deployed in a range of programmes? This dissertation develops an adaptive strategy, "responsibilization", and strategies of denial in the tension between law enforcement, racism and community policing.