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police property  

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  • DefinitionAs an analytic concept the idea of ‘police property’ was introduced in 1981 in a seminal article by Canadian sociologist John A. Lee. Lee himself attributed the term to a 1972 book by the radical professor of journalism Ed Cray The Enemy in the Streets. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Policing; Police Property]

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