The Causes and Consequences of Global Police Militarization

全球警察军事化的原因和后果近几十年来，世界各地的警察部队采用了更典型的军事力量的武器、组织结构和问责制，变得更加军事化。这个项目研究军事化警务如何在国际上传播，为什么会以这种方式传播，以及安全后果是什么。该项目将包括审查警察军事化对警察对文职监督的态度及其参与政治行动的意愿的影响。该项目还将产生一个新的全球警察军事化数据集，这将对研究警务与犯罪、镇压、平叛和军民关系的学者有用。该项目的调查结果将对在外援政策中使用安全部门援助以及进行警察改革的努力产生重要影响。该项目的目标是：(1)通过创建一个新的全球警察军事化跨国时间序列数据集（包括170个国家，1946-2022年），记录各国及其内部警察军事化的模式；(2)发展和测试创新的论点，推进关于全球警察军事化的原因和后果的科学知识。该项目将用混合方法测试新的和创新的论点，包括对全球警察军事化数据集的统计分析，冷战期间国际警察援助计划的档案研究，以及带有实验成分的警察官员调查。该项目的调查结果将促进对下列问题的基础研究：从比较的角度看警察部队的发展和业绩、警察对文职当局和改革努力的态度以及作为外交政策工具的安全部门援助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Causes and Consequences of Global Police MilitarizationIn recent decades, police forces around the world have become more militarized adopting the weaponry, organizational structures, and accountability more typical of military forces. This project examines how militarized policing spread internationally, why it spread in the way that it did, and what the security consequences have been. The project will include an examination of the impact of police militarization on the attitudes of police officers towards civilian oversight and their willingness to engage in political action. The project will also produce a new global dataset of police militarization, which will be useful for scholars studying policing and crime, repression, counterinsurgency, and civil-military relations. The findings of the project will have important implications for the use of security sector assistance in foreign aid policies as well as efforts to undertake police reform. The goals of this project are to: (1) document patterns in police militarization across countries and within them over time through the creation of a new, cross-national time-series dataset on global police militarization, which includes 170 countries, 1946-2022; and (2) develop and test innovative arguments that advance scientific knowledge about the causes and consequences of global police militarization. The project will test new and innovative arguments with mixed methods, including statistical analyses of the global police militarization dataset, archival research on international police assistance programs during the Cold War, and a survey of police officials with an experimental component. The findings of the project will advance basic research on questions regarding the development and performance of police forces in comparative perspective, police attitudes toward civilian authorities and reform efforts, and security sector assistance as an instrument of foreign policy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.