Meanings
- uncountableThe act or process of subjecting to police and policing.
[…]policification of the city. There are 20,000 law enforcement officers in L.A. LAPD's Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) program routinely conducts "field interviews" in which nonwhite youth are forced to […]
1997, Cultural Studies1 more example
[…]policification of every aspect of life in New York City. Under the Giuliani administration, thousands of teenagers have been busted and booked for holding subway doors and sitting on their own stoops. The police have a green light to[…]
1998, The Guild Practitioner - uncountableThe act or process of making more police-like.
[…]"policification" of the military mandate (Crelinsten 1998: 399–400). A country's armed forces are trained for an external security role and should be used only in emergencies where maximum use of force is needed.
2006, Nagaioh Manoharan, Counterterrorism Legislation in Sri Lanka: Evaluating Efficacy1 more example
[…]"policification" of the military is indicative of any overarching idea to merge. They are adaptive measures, and indicators of the increasing difficulty, and urgency, of urbanized social control. The American troops in Iraq can[…]
2006, Stan Goff, Sex and War
Origin
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