Journal of
Law and Conflict Resolution

  • Abbreviation: J. Law Conflict. Resolut
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2006-9804
  • DOI: 10.5897/JLCR
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 102

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Democracy for the few: How local governments empower cops at citizens’ expense

Judson L. Jeffries
Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 30 April 2011
  •  Published: 30 May 2011

Abstract

This article shows how political elites empower police officers at the expense of those they purport to serve. In the process, the actions of political elites and police officers serve to weaken democracy rather than strengthen it, thus undermining the widely promulgated ideal that the United States government is a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Key words: Police officers, citizens, democracy and government.

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