Based on a 3-year ethnography on crime prevention of the police in Germany, this article analyses how the police incorporate youth in their de-escalation work preceding an annual demonstration on the 1st of May. A multimodal conversation analysis of work meetings traces how membership categorisation and assumption of social responsibility change: over the course of several months the police turn initially reluctant youth who the police at the outset considered ‘troublemakers’ into their ‘helpers’. They build an alliance by working with youth centres, influential people from the neighbourhood and participants of the previous year’s project. Whereas the police are the driving force at the beginning of the project, on the day of the demonstration they remain in the background and merely supervise the youth. This sequential development is discussed as a precarious process of disciplining the youth, driving the formation of a neighbourhood community and encouraging political consensus in society.

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在社区警务方面不情愿的合作。德国 5 月 1 日示威前警察如何与青年合作

本文基于对德国警察预防犯罪的 3 年民族志研究，分析了警察如何在 5 月 1 日举行的年度示威之前将青年纳入其降级工作。对工作会议的多模式对话分析追踪了成员分类和社会责任承担的变化：在几个月的过程中，警察将最初被警察视为“麻烦制造者”的最初不情愿的年轻人变成了他们的“帮手”。他们通过与青年中心、附近有影响力的人和上一年项目的参与者合作建立联盟。虽然警察是项目开始时的推动力，但在示威当天，他们仍然处于幕后，只是监督年轻人。