C3 policing

C3 policing or Counter Criminal Continuum Policing is a modification of counter-insurgency ("COIN") methods used by U.S. Army Special Forces and adapted for use by civilian law enforcement agencies. The C3 policing model was created and developed by Michael M. Cutone. This model is currently being implemented through a partnership between the Springfield, Massachusetts Police Department[1] and a team of Massachusetts State Police (MSP) troopers (designated as the Massachusetts State Police Special Projects Team) to implement C3 policing methods in order to control criminal street gangs and illicit drug networks in the North End section of Springfield. The MSP Special Projects Team personnel includes two veteran Special Forces soldiers, Trooper Cutone (a master sergeant with the 19th SFG) and Trooper Thomas Sarrouf (a lieutenant colonel with the 19th SFG).[2]

History
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Officers of different agencies leaving the scene of Operation Anvil 4.0, one of several interagency C3 police actions

The C3 policing model was created and developed by Michael M. Cutone, a senior NCO with the US Army Special Forces who served with 10th, 19th, and 5th SFG(A), totaling 25 years with Army Special Forces.[2] Cutone is also a Massachusetts State Trooper. In 2006, Cutone returned from a deployment in Avghani, Iraq, where his unit had used the principles of COIN to defeat insurgent networks. In October 2009, during the course of his patrol duties in Springfield, he determined that the principals of COIN utilized in Iraq[2] might also be implemented to detect, disrupt, degrade, and dismantle gang activity in the city's high-crime North End section.[3] After implementing the concept, the initiative received accolades from the citizens of the North End section as well as local public officials.[4][5] C3 policing also received the support of the Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police.[6]

Harvard University C3 course scandal

In January 2021, students at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences created a petition objecting to a course on C3 policing at that school. [7] Offered by Professor Kit Parker and titled "ENG-SCI 298R: Data Fusion in Complex Systems: A Case Study," the course promised to engage graduate student researchers to analyze the efficacy of a C3 techniques in Springfield, MA. The petition objected to the lack of analysis of structural racism, political economy, inequity in criminal justice, residential segregation in analysis of C3, and the failure of C3 in light of repeated investigations into use of excessive force in the Springfield Police Department.

Signatories demanded cancelling the class and a wide variety of other actions, including "a full independent, third-party review of Prof. Kit Parker,"[8] to determine if the professor should be disciplined for unethically offering a course about policing that was not centered on its oppression of and violence against persons of color, and a demand that the university's engineering faculty be educated in the doctrine of police abolition.[9]

The dean of the engineering school announced the class was cancelled, and committed to reviewing the process of vetting class offerings. [10][11]

References
  1. Springfield Police Department
  2. Grip, Stanley T., Jr. (May 2008). "The Avghani Model" (PDF). ARMY Magazine. 58 (5): 47–48, 50, 52, 54.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Hibbard, Bradley G. (October 2011). "Counter Criminal Continuum (C3) Policing in Springfield, Massachusetts:A Collaborative Effort between City and State Police to Reduce Gang Violence". Police Chief Magazine.
  4. Spencer, Buffy (May 5, 2011). "Springfield North End residents praise police initiative that has reduced crime". The Republican. Springfield.
  5. Mostue, Anne (August 22, 2011). "Counter-Insurgency Tactics Used to Reduce Crime in Springfield". WFCR New England Public Radio.
  6. LaBorde, Ted (August 16, 2012). "Timothy Alben of East Longmeadow sworn in as new Massachusetts State Police superintendent during ceremony at Westfield State University". The Republican. Springfield.
  7. "Joint Letter & Demands to Harvard SEAS regarding ENG-SCI 298r". Petition by SEAS students. January 24, 2021.
  8. "Joint Letter & Demands to Harvard SEAS regarding ENG-SCI 298r". Google Docs. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  9. "Joint Letter & Demands to Harvard SEAS regarding ENG-SCI 298r". Google Docs. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  10. https://www.masslive.com/police-fire/2021/01/harvard-cancels-class-exploring-c3-policing-methods-employed-by-springfield-police-after-student-outcry.html
  11. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/01/27/harvard-calls-course-amid-petition-campaign
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