RT Article
T1 Getting back to the state: policing the Covid-19 pandemic
JF Policing and society
VO 33
IS 6
SP 732
OP 747
A1 Vilalta-Perdomo, Carlos
A2 Fondevila, Gustavo
A2 Dammert, Lucía
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1851519890
AB This paper analyzes the impact of the pandemic (from 2020 to 2021) on levels of trust and legitimacy of the Chilean police (Carabineros) by the population in the metropolitan area of Santiago, Chile. Based on a pseudo-panel method and a cohort fixed-effects regression model that controlled for unobserved time invariant heterogeneity, we found a significant increase in police legitimacy during the pandemic (on average, 63%, among the adult residents of the region, based on the police legitimacy index comprising six perceptual variables). Evidence suggests that the perceived performance of the Carabineros during the pandemic served to recover the trust of citizens, at least temporarily, even when this intervention entailed the enforcement of anti-popular measures.
K1 Latin America
K1 Chile
K1 Legitimacy
K1 Trust
K1 Pandemic
K1 Policing
DO 10.1080/10439463.2023.2195648