Abstract
Crime increase in Latin America has occurred in parallel with a change in police policy in territories. Along with the processes of militarization and police repression, strategies of co-production have been inspired by community policing, but the articulation of both in urban margins has been understudied. Our hypothesis affirms the coexistence and ambivalence of both social assistance and abusive practices against the city's poor. Qualitative methods conducted in Santiago, Chile, show police policy involves both dimensions, which are strongly rooted in identity elements of the military tradition of the region's police forces.
Highlights
O aumento da criminalidade na América Latina ocorreu em paralelo com uma mudança na política policial em territórios
The presence of urban marginality is a characteristic of all Latin American cities
This article is based on qualitative information collected from one study developed by the authors in urban margin neighbourhoods, defined as urban poor neighbourhoods characterized by high levels of socio-territorial vulnerability, urban precariousness, and high levels of criminal violence
Summary
The transition to democracy gave way to a transformation in citizen security policies in Latin America and Chile is no exception. In Latin America, community policing has been a widely used model in the last two decades with multiple local variations (UNGAR and ARIAS, 2012), which were conceived by authorities to develop a more democratic approach to the police’s response to crime (BONNER, 2019) These variations are observed in the experiences of the Santa Fé police and the police in Córdoba (IAZZETA, 2019; GOLDIN, 2020), the Sao Paulo state police, the Colombian National Police in Bogotá (FRÜHLING, 2012), the Fica Vico program in Belo Horizonte (ALVES and ARIAS, 2012), the Special Forces for Special Areas in Rio de Janeiro (Riccio, Ruediger, Dutt Ross and Skogan, 2013), the Chilean Carabineros (LABRA, 2011) and/or the Peruvian National Police (DAMMERT and CASTAÑEDA, 2019). To respond to these questions, we analyse the Carabineros, the Chilean uniformed police which for decades garnered high levels of trust among citizens and was one the most respected police institutions in Latin America (BONNER, 2013)
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