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Clergy & Police A Semiotic Analysis Of Clergy On Patrol, Ricardo Estevan Reyes
Clergy & Police A Semiotic Analysis Of Clergy On Patrol, Ricardo Estevan Reyes
Communication & Theatre Arts Theses
The Clergy On Patrol (COP) program is a collaboration between the Norfolk Police Department and community faith leaders of the Norfolk Urban Renewal Center. This study analyzed themes and patterns in the communicative relationship between police and clergy members, using a semiotic approach and the scholarship of intergroup communication. Additionally, an added secondary analysis of media coverage helped focus the results of the study using themes. This thesis merged the two semiotic analyses to examine a style of community policing that has lacked a closer eye.
This thesis guided itself by the argument that clergy-police collaborative programs structure …