policify

present singular third person policifies · participle present policifying · participle past policified · past policified

1. To subject to policification.

   […]a sheet with numerous (mug-shot) photographs. It looks very 'policified', if I can use that term.

   (Can we date this quote?), California (State)., California. Court of Appeal (1st Appellate District). Records and Briefs: 2CRIM39009, Appellant's Opening, page 8

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   […], adequately funded , and limited in number so that the military does not become increasingly “policified." The military may also benefit from participation in international peacekeeping operations, which […]

   1996 October 17, Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Civil-Military Relations and Democracy, JHU Press, →ISBN

   […]"policified" or the police officials "socialized" to the need for positive social reform is, of course, difficult to determine.

   1998, Stephen S. Large, Shōwa Japan: 1941-1952, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 101

   But there are different rationales to policify the society. A recent experience of mine illustrates this new reality. The other day I traded on racial privilege in the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station. I saw these BART police, these paramilitary BART cops, who[…]

   2008 July 1, Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney Lopez, Jonathan Simon, After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 223

   […] police practices […] "policify" them [favelas]. Rather than normalizing notions of legality, or "prisonizing" the poor, police practices in favelas contribute to wider discourses of disorder and danger, and function as a mechanism by which social anxieties are[…]

   2013 June 25, William Garriott, Policing and Contemporary Governance: The Anthropology of Police in Practice, Springer, →ISBN

   We've talked a lot about the militarization of policing. This is probably best termed the criminalizing or policifying of school.

   2014 October 21, “The Criminalization of Schooling”, in Talking Points Memo