التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
The politics of police violence: Political competition and police killings in Brazil. |
| المؤلفون: |
Flom, Hernán |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Urban Affairs; 2024, Vol. 46 Issue 8, p1644-1666, 23p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
POLICE brutality, DEMOCRACY, POLICE shootings, POLICE reform, METROPOLITAN areas |
| مستخلص: |
What affects police killings of denizens in the cities of developing democracies? Brazil is one of the countries with the most casualties from police lethality, yet deaths from police interventions vary greatly across its cities, as well as over time. Since most of its police forces are formally responsive to state-level governments, the political dynamics at this government tier are essential to comprehend urban policing—and its resort to deadly violence. I argue that subnational political competition explains whether state-level governments can implement reforms to reduce police lethality. I illustrate this argument through a within-case, cross-case comparison of the city-states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro since re-democratization in the 1980s. While lower fragmentation and partisan continuity at the state-level government enabled and consolidated reforms that mitigated police violence in São Paulo, higher fragmentation and turnover inhibited reforms and increased police lethality in Rio. Building on interviews with subnational politicians and police officers as well as statistics on police killings, this paper helps spark an urgent conversation in urban studies on police violence in the urban Global South and expands the police reform literature by developing a theory of how politics influences police violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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