Policing to Promote the Rule of Law and Protect the Population An Evidence-Based Approach (2022) / Chapter Skim
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• Resistance to Change • Ineffective Organizational Management • Reactive Rather than Proactive Policing • Dual or Multiple-Level Entry into Police Service • Existence of Public Corruption • Absence of Police Accountability • Host Nation Resource Allocation Favors Military • Human Rights Abuses • [Underrepresentation] of Women in Policing • Poor Coordination Within Criminal Justice System.
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, may provide a path forward, as it allows planners to think about bypassing some barriers rather than confronting them directly. Such mapping, in the policing context, would consider how imported ideas may be received by local law enforcement and political elites, and how such ideas may be transformed once filtered through local interests and dispositions as well as the political will necessary to ensure not only that knowledge is accepted but that it is also effectively implemented (Hills, 2012)
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. Opportunity: Measuring the Rule of Law Given the multifaceted and complex nature of the concept of the ROL, it is difficult to measure a country's commitment to it and, more specifically and relevant to the committee's charge, to measure a police service's 19 In the context of providing foreign assistance, it seems reasonable to use the state (coun try)
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This section discusses and compares two of the most comprehensive indices which use different methodologies and sources of data to rank countries: (1) The World Justice Project (WJP)
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executive bribery 26 The following is a snapshot of information on the World Justice Project and its ROL Index; for reference and additional information, see https://worldjusticeproject.org/our-work/ research-and-data/wjp-rule-law-index-2020. 27 The following is a snapshot of information on the Varieties of Democracies Project and its ROL Index; for reference and additional information, see https://www.v-dem.net/en.
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foreign assistance and the capacity building of criminal justice systems and police organizations in developing countries of need. Appendix A offers a validation exercise of two ROL correlates, and Appendix B provides biographical sketches of committee members and study staff.
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There are also major issues in organizational patterns in Global South countries, largely concerning the relationships between responsibilities and authority of military institutions in relation to policing tasks. The distinction between a militarized and a civilian policing service will be investigated next, followed by an examination of governance structures 31
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According to Flores-Macías, these variations in organizational structures influence the physical and psychological distance between police and the population. In Latin America, this distance is widening, and it is viewed as contributing to police indifference to escalating conflict and human rights violations (see Box 2-1 for additional information on the militarization of the police in Latin America)
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In this context, civilian police departments have struggled for decades to contain rising violent crime. A combination of state weakness and electoral incentives is leading politi cians to react to complex public safety problems by deploying the armed forces.
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and shifting expenditures as well as crime reports and citizen complaints. However, these findings are contested; Gunderson and colleagues (2021)
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