A comparative study of police organizational changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: responding to public health crisis or something else?. (13th August 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Maskály, Jon; Ivković, Sanja Kutnjak; Neyroud, Peter
• Is Part Of: Policing. Volume 15:Number 4(2021)
• Page Start: 2372
• Page End: 2388
• Publication Date: 2021-08-13
• Subjects: Police -- Periodicals; 363.2
• DOI: 10.1093/police/paab043
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1752-4512

Abstract

Abstract: Police organizations—like many other social institutions—were forced to make changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This exploratory study uses data from 28 countries to examine how the strength of the pandemic (e.g. infection rates and death rates) and governmental restrictions are related to these changes. The analyses of the data suggest the way in which police organizations responded to the pandemic was complicated. Infection rates are generally not as strongly related to changes as are death rates. Governmental restrictiveness is strongly related to some changes. Additional research is needed to tease out additional factors that potentially explain these changes as well as multivariate effects of these factors.