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The Indian Patrol in Minneapolis: Social Control and Social Change in an Urban Context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2024
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In recent years, there has been a proliferation of voluntary citizens' patrols (hereafter called citizens' patrols) in the urban areas of this country (Brown, 1969; Knopf, 1969; Marx and Archer, 1970 and in press). Many of these groups were shortlived responses to situations of social unrest and upheaval. They frequently were based on the premise that community residents could do more to prevent an area from burning to the ground than could the regular police, who were envisioned as an invading army. When the riot or disturbance was over, and the rationale of the citizens' patrol as an agent of social control became less obvious, such groups tended to disappear.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: The names of groups and places have not been changed for this paper. The reason for this somewhat unorthodox procedure is that most of the individuals involved requested that no pseudonyms be used. Written consents were gathered so that individual preferences could be honored. The co-operation of all of the people who participated in this study is gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks go to the AIM Board of Directors for their official approval of the research, and to the Indian Patrollers for their continuous help and their generous gift of time and interest in the study. Financial support was provided by a National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.
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