Constructing police legitimacy during protests: frames and consequences for human rights
Constructing police legitimacy during protests: frames and consequences for human rights
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DOI：
10.1080/10439463.2021.1957887
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发表时间：
2021-07-23
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Dammert, Lucia
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作者：
Bonner, Michelle D.;Dammert, Lucia
警察合法性是一个建构的概念。理论家认为，合法性是通过符合法律和社会期望并尊重人权的警察实践来实现的。挑战在于，可接受和不可接受的警察力量之间的区别需要解释。本文使用智利主要报纸的定性框架分析，揭示警察及其支持者如何为警察行动辩护，以应对2019年10月至12月智利的大规模社会抗议活动。我们认为，发言者用来解释社会起义期间警察行动的主要框架证明警察暴力是对犯罪威胁的合法反应，并且与警察协议和法律一致。在重申警察的合法性的同时，这些框架使侵犯人权的主张（通常是明确的）变得不合法，并将主导的公共谈话从更广泛的公共安全和公共秩序改革的讨论中转移开，这些改革可以更好地减少警察暴力。这种框架揭示了警察合法性与人权保护之间的紧张关系，以及国家权力和公民社会在媒体中提升的声音，以挑战后者。
Police legitimacy is a constructed concept. Theorists argue that legitimacy is achieved through police practices that conform to the law and societal expectations, and respect human rights. The challenge is that the distinction between acceptable and unacceptable police force requires interpretation. This article uses a qualitative frame analysis of leading Chilean newspapers to reveal how police and their supporters justified police actions in response to the massive social protests in Chile from October to December 2019. We argue that the dominant frames speakers used to explain police actions during the social uprising justified police violence as a legitimate response to a criminal threat and as consistent with police protocols and the law. While reasserting police legitimacy, the frames delegitimise claims of human rights abuses (often explicitly) and shift the dominant public conversation away from discussions of broader public security and public order reforms that could better reduce police violence. Such frames reveal the tensions between police legitimacy and human rights protections, and the power of state and civil society voices elevated in the media to challenge the latter.