Seigel, M. (2018). Violence work: Policing and power. Race and Class, 59(4), 15-33. doi:10.1177/0306396817752617

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Discuss your thoughts on the information that has been posted by your professor and discuss its relevance and implications to the field of criminal justice. Your remarks can be opinion, but they must be based on your experience, research, and/or prior learning. Use this exercise to converse with your fellow colleagues about issues that are important to the field of criminal justice. Of interest is a dialogue of opinions, thoughts, and comments. Be sure to discuss both sides of the issue as noted in the actual question posting. 600-words APA format. For this assignment DO NOT allow this article to pull you down into the weeds, you have to stay above and view the overall big picture and theme of the research. Violence, policing and power all have a process, sequential actions or pre-determined orderly steps taken to achieve a particular outcome or end product. With this concept in mind and the author’s research discuss your perspective on the following questions:

1. Within the last ten years how have federal, state and local governments taken advantage of policing, power and violence? Identify various situational processes you have observed or experienced.
2. Within the last ten years how have private entities, community groups and political activists taken advantage of policing, power and violence? Identify various situational processes you have observed or experienced.