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12 - Restoring Police-Community Relations in Uganda

from Part II - The Effects of Community Policing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2024

Graeme Blair
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Fotini Christia
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeremy M. Weinstein
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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In this chapter, we test the efficacy of community policing in thirteen districts throughout rural Uganda. As in many authoritarian regimes, police in Uganda serve the dual role of providing security to citizens on the one hand and quelling dissent and opposition on behalf of the regime on the other. Community policing may help citizens delink the political arm of the police from less politicized local officers. The community policing initiative we study was locally designed and funded by the Ugandan police. Our evaluation combines administrative crime data from the Uganda Police Force with surveys of thousands of Ugandan citizens, local leaders, and police officers. While the initiative we study succeeded in increasing the frequency of interactions between citizens and the police in these far-flung villages and improved citizens’ understanding of the criminal justice system, we find no evidence that it reduced crime, enhanced perceptions of safety, improved attitudes towards the police, or strengthened norms of cooperation with the police. These results are consistent with other chapters in this volume and point to the potential limitations of community policing in low-income countries.

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Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing
Experiments on Building Trust
, pp. 439 - 482
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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