2021
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3772930
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Citizens, Suspects, and Enemies: Examining Police Militarization

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“…There is substantial evidence that when police adopt militarystyle tactics and "start using weapons and equipment that were designed for soldiers in combat" ( [14], 109), their perception of their role and their relationship with the community is altered, particularly in relation to communities of colour: "pacifying and defeating the enemy becomes more important than protecting and serving the public" ( [14], 110. See also [37]). In the United States, the adoption of military technology also has a measurable impact on incidents of police killings.…”
Section: Techno-subjectivity and Moral Mediationmentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…There is substantial evidence that when police adopt militarystyle tactics and "start using weapons and equipment that were designed for soldiers in combat" ( [14], 109), their perception of their role and their relationship with the community is altered, particularly in relation to communities of colour: "pacifying and defeating the enemy becomes more important than protecting and serving the public" ( [14], 110. See also [37]). In the United States, the adoption of military technology also has a measurable impact on incidents of police killings.…”
Section: Techno-subjectivity and Moral Mediationmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…In comparison, the armed white protestors who raided the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, faced police who were not clad in riot technology and who did not engage in substantial force against them [58]. This stark and visible disparity in the use of violent control technologies serves a powerful signifying function: BLM protestors are dangerous but white protestors are not, even when engaged in a violent armed insurrection, the technologies of violence and suppression are necessary (and therefore justified) when interacting with BLM protestors, but not when interacting with majority white protestors [37]. Images of the police response to these different groups, replicated in media coverage of the protests, communicates and reinforces, even more effectively than words or political speeches, the criminalisation of blackness 5 and the belief that people of colour (and those who support them) pose such a threat that they may justifiably be harmed or killed.…”
Section: The Narrative Of Threatmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Askerileşme, ekipman ve taktiklerle maddi açıdan değişim yanında kültürel açıdan da bir değişimi beraberinde getirir. Regan (2021) ABD örneğine bir bütün olarak askerileşmenin sembolik bir boyut taşımakta olduğunu, azınlık topluluklarının üyelerinin topluma tehdit oluşturan dış düşmanlar gibi sunulmasına olanak sağladığını savunur. Bu durum ayrıca polisin ve ordunun rolünü karşılaştırılabilir olarak tasavvur etmekte, kolluk ve ulusal güvenlik operasyonları arasındaki ayrımı rahatsız edici şekilde bir bütün içinde bulanıklaştırmaktadır.…”
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