Public expectations of police intervention have expanded well beyond their traditional mandate
Evidence
One dimension of service demand is quantitative. Public expectations of and demands for certain public services increase over time. In the case of the police, for example, society expects them to intervene in many more social conflicts-interracial violence, black assaults on blacks, family disputes, juvenile justice-than was the case perhaps forty years ago. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 285
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Public expectations expand police duties into social conflicts beyond traditional crime