Trust in the police and the militarisation of law enforcement in Latin America

Sung, Hung‐En; Capellan, Joel A.; Barthuly, Bryce

doi:10.1080/10439463.2022.2037551

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“…Such countries might include Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Venezuela. LAPOP data suggests that these countries' extreme level of law enforcement militarization amidst acute insecurity typically corresponds with decreased trust in police (Sung et al, 2022).…”

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“…Less scholarship has used LAPOP to understand how crime victimization compares to victimization from political violence vis-à-vis system support. Main attempts include Centeno et al (2013) and Nussio (2019) while Pérez (2003Pérez ( /2004, Cruz (2015), and Sung et al (2022) highlight a potential mechanism. Centeno et al (2013) discuss why internal armed conflicts between the states of Colombia, El Salvador, and Mexico and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) insurgency, street gangs, and drug trafficking organizations, respectively, have not increased political system support.…”

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“…Most recently, Sung et al (2022) use LAPOP to show that confidence in the armed forces and trust in the police decrease as crime increases and as regime instability due to factors like conflict deepens. These dynamics fuel demands for militaries to participate more in policing and for police to assume the limited accountability, heavy weaponry, lethal training, and centralized and hierarchical structures of militaries.…”

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“…LAPOP has no equivalent survey item regarding the military. We take into consideration how both the Army and National Police fall under Colombia's Ministry of Defense, have counterinsurgency and counternarcotics missions, and perform some overlapping tasks (Sung et al, 2022). Perhaps due to this similar institutional profile, trust in police and trust in the military are strongly and positively correlated.…”

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Examining the Crime-Conflict Distinction: Victimization and Political System Support in Colombia

Angulo Amaya,

Littlefield

2023

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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How do crime and conflict compare in relation to victims’ support for their political system? Latin American Politics scholarship has emphasized the distinct motivations of criminal and political violence. However, victims might not distinguish meaningfully between these types of insecurity. Scholars have used surveys extensively to understand crime victimization's consequences, but we know less about conflict victimization's relationship with political attitudes. Analyzing public opinion surveys from Colombia (2012–2018), we find that crime and conflict victimization share a minimal relationship with system support at the national level. In conflict zones, however, victimization from political violence corresponds negatively with system support. Decreased confidence in security forces may be the explanation. Our findings have three implications: scholars risk overemphasizing the crime-conflict distinction without micro-level insight; analyzing public opinion in areas beyond state control is necessary to build such knowledge; and, amidst acute insecurity, attention to victims has systemic importance.

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Examining the Crime-Conflict Distinction: Victimization and Political System Support in Colombia

Angulo Amaya,

Littlefield

2023

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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Diaz,

Pereda

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World Development

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I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Help: Public Perceptions of Coercive State Power

BLANKSHAIN,

COHN,

LUPTON

2024

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Under what conditions does the US public support the domestic use of different institutions of coercive state power? We theorize how the type of situation, the type of actor, the mission, and the type of intervention influence public support for such missions. We use a preregistered conjoint survey experiment to test our hypotheses and find that participants (i) are less supportive of interventions in response to protests than to natural disasters or terrorism, (ii) generally prefer the police or the National Guard to the military, (iii) mistrust order maintenance interventions, and (iv) prefer intervening actors be unarmed. Preferences (ii)–(iv) are strongly conditioned on the type of event. We also find that Republicans are more accepting of military actors, order maintenance interventions, armed interventions, and policing responses to protests. We note implications for public trust in the military, the militarization of policing, and the domestic use of federal forces.

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Trust in the police and the militarisation of law enforcement in Latin America

Cited by 7 publications

References 58 publications

Examining the Crime-Conflict Distinction: Victimization and Political System Support in Colombia

Examining the Crime-Conflict Distinction: Victimization and Political System Support in Colombia

COVID-19 and violence against women: Current knowledge, gaps, and implications for public policy

I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Help: Public Perceptions of Coercive State Power

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