{"pk":31503,"title":"“Police Yelp”","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p><em>This Note discusses failed police accountability measures and suggests a new </em><em>intervention, “Police Yelp,” that focuses on community control over police officers. The Note </em><em>discusses the current institutional measures that have attempted to control police but have </em><em>failed, largely due to their reactive and institutional nature. To better control police and ensure </em><em>they are policing as communities want to be policed, this Note argues for community control </em><em>over police through a democratic process, similar to the way that users interact with businesses </em><em>on Yelp. The Note draws on power shifting as articulated by Jocelyn Simonson, among others, </em><em>which advocates for shifting power from the elite to the everyday residents who are subjugated </em><em>to the deadly power of police. Through “Police Yelp,” residents will be given the authority and </em><em>platform to report on every interaction they have with police, and police departments will be </em><em>required to take action against their officers based on those reviews by residents. In this way, </em><em>“Police Yelp” gives the power back to the community to determine how, when, and by whom </em><em>they want to be policed.</em></p>","language":null,"license":{"name":"All rights reserved","short_name":"Copyright","text":"© the author(s). All rights reserved.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors"},"keywords":[],"section":"Note","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/51m2f6nq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Natalie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gould","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-03-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucilr/article/31503/galley/22572/download/"}]}