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Record W2104248018 · doi:10.1177/096466390000900104

Autonomy, Regulation and the Police Beat

2000· article· en· W2104248018 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSocial & Legal Studies · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolicing Practices and Perceptions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Windsor
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAutonomyDiscretionOfficerSociologyCorporate governanceLawState policePolitical sciencePublic relationsLaw enforcementManagementEconomics

Abstract

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In this article, the historical development of the police beat in the context of liberal governance is explored. As a mechanism of surveillance, the beat was a continuation of rules of the nightly watch, characterized by a tight control over watchmen by fixing person, post and time. As a site of police autonomy, the patrol beat facilitated the furtherance of the enterprise of the amateur constabulary and cultivated police officer dominion by matching police authority to territorial imperatives. In this way, discipline and autonomy have been carved into the mobilization of police in an economy or surveillance and discretion. The legacy of night and day patrol offered an initial temporal organization to this economy, with prohibitions and permissions by time and place. Rather than compromising liberal distinctions, this patrol bifurcation allowed their perseverance by structuring police capacity to intervene into the lives of citizens. But while the legacy of liberal autonomy in the police beat has served to maintain police discretion in the short run, technological innovations offering enhanced time and space compression may in the long run threaten that autonomy and, with it, an important grounding of liberal consent policing.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.899
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.062
GPT teacher head0.406
Teacher spread0.344 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it