Police Uniforms Research Articles

Costumes and Costuming: Defining Current Performance Strategies

doi: 10.3138/ctr.152.3 Costuming Urban Theatricality ... As this issue goes to press, the student protest movement in Quebec has quickly become a massive manifestation of urban theatricality. In opposition to the Quebec government’s proposed tuition hikes, demonstrators have made major incursions into civic life. And, in response to Bill 78, which seeks to constrain the right to protest, the demonstrations have become broader based and ever more inventive. One acoustic expression has been the beating of pots and pans, and in the prelude to the weekend of the Formula One Race, costuming was particularly emphasized. On 7 June, marchers chanted “Everyone naked in the street” as they stripped down to their smalls. Red body paint stood in for bits of clothing while selfmade additions showed a real flare for minimalist, politicized costuming. The now-iconic red rectangle was drawn on chests, arms, faces, and pregnant bellies. The blueness of the police uniforms topped by bright green emergency vests, and some of the hyped clothing of the race car fans, offered competing costume displays and a vivid testimony to the pervasive importance of costume here and now.

An Ambience of Power? Challenges Inherent in the Role of the Public Transport Transit Officer

An Ambience of Power? Challenges Inherent in the Role of the Public Transport Transit Officer

Inside Mexico's Drug War

AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico?Just before noon on February 15, 2007, four municipal police officers in Aguascalientes, the pictur esque capital of the central Mexican state bearing the same name, were called to a mundane road accident. An overturned, black Chevy Suburban with out-of-state license plates was blocking traffic on the quiet Boulevard John Paul II that runs through the city's sleepy western suburbs. When local police commander Juan Jos? Navarro Rincon and his three colleagues ar rived, they saw two men who did not appear to be hurt, removing AK-47 assault rifles and police uniforms from the crashed vehi cle to a white Nissan sport utility vehicle (suv) parked nearby. Navarro Rincon called for reinforcements. He was about to arrest the pair when two other cars came to an abrupt stop just up the road. Three gunmen climbed out and opened fire with automatic weapons. Navarro Rincon was killed in stantly. Three other officers also died. The killings, dubbed Black Thursday by the local press, were the first shootings of police officers in by drug gangs. Until then, had been a quiet place, immune to the violence that was raging in cities along the U.S.-Mexico border and elsewhere in the country. The firefight sparked a manhunt throughout the state's rocky plateaus, involving some five dozen federal police patrol cars and a mili tary helicopter. Later that day, with the gunmen and the drivers of the escape vehi cles captured and in police custody, Aguas calientes State Attorney Xavier Gonzalez Fisher tried to reassure the rattled public. He told the media that the burst of violence was an isolated incident. Aguascalientes is quiet, is at peace...this does not happen every day. For a long time, his words might have served as an accurate description of the state of affairs in Aguascalientes. But the incident was a telltale mark that the

Government, Press, and Subversion in Russia, 1906–19171

Government, Press, and Subversion in Russia, 1906–1917¹

Good guys wear black: uniform color and citizen impressions of police

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to examine whether officer uniform color influences impressions the public forms about the character of police officers.Design/methodology/approachA survey using digitally manipulated photographic prompts was used to examine how various levels of officer race, posture, and uniform color as well as a number of other experiential, attitudinal and demographic variables influenced subjects' impressions of officers' character on factor scores constructed from a set of semantic differential scales.FindingsOfficer uniform color influences impression formation, but not in the expected manner. Black uniforms elicited more positive impressions of officers than did lighter uniforms.Research limitations/implicationsConvenience sample was drawn from university undergraduates.Practical implicationsDarker uniforms for police may enhance favorable character impressions formed by some sectors of the public.Originality/valueThe research instrument improves measurement validity over prior methods while maintaining a precise experimental control. Findings contradict the conclusions of prior research on public perceptions of darker vs lighter police uniforms.

A survey of dye batch variation

A survey of dye batch variation in samples of mass produced textile fibres was carried out on material from textile manufacturers, socks from a national retail chain, and samples from 100 police uniforms obtained from the Tayside Police Force. Using TLC analysis, variation was found in the dye composition of each of the sources of material. Where the dye intensity and fibre diameter were optimal, this variation was detectable in single fibres of 3-4mm length.

Police uniforms, attitudes, and citizens

This study focuses on identifying the relationship between the citizen's attitude toward the police and the police uniform and authoritarian attitude. The perceived authority associated with the police uniform has been an essential ingredient of the police role. Consequently, the police uniform influences attitudes and behaviors of the wearers as well as the citizens with whom they interact. The citizen's attitude is negatively affected by the traditional military style police uniform in conjunction with the authoritarian attitude exhibited by police officers in performance of their duties. Consequently, when the uniform and officer's attitude are altered, there will be a corresponding change in the citizen's attitude toward the police. The attitude of the officer, in conjunction with the uniform, exerts considerably more influence on the citizen's attitude than does the uniform, officer's attitude, or any additional factor acting independently.

Review: Police Uniforms of the World, the Case of the Sulky Girl, Murder in Mayfair

Review: Police Uniforms of the World, the Case of the Sulky Girl, Murder in Mayfair

London in the Fifties and Sixties: Police Uniforms

London in the Fifties and Sixties: Police Uniforms

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Journal Article Police uniforms: Omnibuses Get access Notes and Queries, Volume s10-III, Issue 75, 3 June 1905, Page 432, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s10-III.75.432b Published: 03 June 1905

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Journal Article Police uniforms: Omnibuses Get access Lionel Monckton Lionel Monckton 169, Russell Square, W.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s10-III, Issue 57, 28 January 1905, Page 75, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s10-III.57.75d Published: 28 January 1905

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses

Police uniforms: Omnibuses