Citation

Ii FWT, Fox BH. Police Pract. Res. 2019; 20(2): 122-138.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15614263.2017.1371600

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Despite the dramatic rise in use of militarized weapons, equipment, and tactics by police departments across the nation, no study has examined the opinions of those responsible for designing, funding, and implementing police militarization in the United States. Therefore this study collected and analyzed opinion data from 465 key stakeholders from the 114th Congress U.S. House of Representatives, law enforcement executives, and local police officers regarding police militarization.

RESULTS suggest that while most practitioners and policymakers favor police militarization, Congress and law enforcement differ in support of critical issues such as oversight of military procurement programs, use of surplus military weapons and vehicles, and overall support for the militarization of policing in the United States.

Language: en

Keywords

opinion survey; police militarization; Policing; policy