'Giving the right service to different people': revisiting police legitimacy in the Covid-19 era
'Giving the right service to different people': revisiting police legitimacy in the Covid-19 era
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DOI：
10.1080/10439463.2022.2113785
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发表时间：
2022-09-06
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2.7
通讯作者：
Bennett, Stephanie
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作者：
Charman, Sarah;Newiss, Geoff;Bennett, Stephanie
某些公民自由被暂停，警察权力被扩大以遏制新冠肺炎疫情的蔓延，这引发了人们对疫情对警方合法性的较长期影响的担忧。利用文献中确定的警察合法性的途径，本文考察了警察对大流行对警察合法性的影响和潜在挑战的看法。定性访谈、视频日记和焦点小组与英格兰一个警察部队区域的警察进行了交谈，这些警察在2020/21冬季五个月的时间里被抓获。监管新冠肺炎的经历让许多警察担心这可能会对与公众的关系造成影响。该文件警告说，仅将执行措施作为最后手段使用执法措施在公众对程序正义的看法上取得的任何好处，可能会被获得合法性的其他途径的损失所抵消。对执法和提高能见度的期望，加上对部署做法的长期改变，都使人们更加重视警察合法性的更重要的方面。也有人担心，新冠肺炎的治安加剧了社会分歧，加剧了多个公众对警察的感觉，他们对警察的期望和信念往往是相互矛盾的。在一些群体和地点内的执法力度更大，可能会加剧人们长期以来对分配公平的担忧。作为具有行使武力和强制的独特权力的社会控制机构，这一流行病将要求警方继续对维持公众同意和支持的手段保持警惕。
The suspension of certain civil liberties and the extension of police powers to combat the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has provoked concerns about the longer-term implications of the pandemic on police legitimacy. Drawing upon pathways to police legitimacy identified within the literature, this paper examines police officers' perceptions of the impacts on, and potential challenges to, police legitimacy arising from the pandemic. Qualitative interviews, video diaries and focus groups were conducted with police officers in one police force area in England, captured over a five month period in winter 2020/21. The experience of policing Covid-19 left many police officers concerned about the possible consequences for the relationship with the public. The paper cautions that any gains in public perceptions of procedural justice through using enforcement measures only as a last resort, may be offset by losses in other pathways to legitimacy. Expectations of enforcement and increased visibility plus prolonged changes to deployment practices have all heightened a focus on the more instrumental aspects of police legitimacy. Concerns were also voiced that the policing of Covid-19 has accentuated divisions in society, exacerbating the sense of multiple publics to police, with different and often competing expectations of - and beliefs about - the police. Enforcement falling more heavily within some groups and locations risks exacerbating long-standing concerns about distributive fairness. As agents of social control with unique powers to exercise force and compulsion, the pandemic will require the police to exercise continued vigilance on the means by which public consent and support are sustained.