Análisis de la valoración ciudadana del uso de la fuerza por la policía en el contexto del Covid-19

Clarimón Escuder, Gema

Análisis de la valoración ciudadana del uso de la fuerza por la policía en el contexto del Covid-19

Citation

Clarimón Escuder, G. Análisis de la valoración ciudadana del uso de la fuerza por la policía en el contexto del Covid-19. 2020. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45607

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Abstract

The use of force by the police in their interventions is a phenomenon that has great impact on the public, whether it is a personal experience or an indirect one, and that is because it is one of the most extreme manifestations of the State's authority. Despite that, there are few studies about this topic in Spain. The aim of this project is to find out, across a bibliographic review and an investigation, which are the key factors to explain citizens’ perception of the police’s use of force in the context of the state of alarm caused by COVID-19. For this purpose, a survey has been conducted and broadcasted by social networks, and with the results obtained a logistic regression model has been elaborated. From this, it has been extracted that giving police a high level of legitimacy makes people tolerate use of force against people who disobey confinement. Furthermore, the more punitive they are, the more acceptance of police interventions where force is used against those who violate the State of alarm orders. Conversely, when it comes to the context, no significative evidence has been found to that effect to explain more or less support for police use of force.