policify

From police +‎ -ify.

policify (third-person singular simple present policifies, present participle policifying, simple past and past participle policified)

1. To subject to policification.
   • 1996 October 17, Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Civil-Military Relations and Democracy, JHU Press, →ISBN:

     […] , adequately funded , and limited in number so that the military does not become increasingly “policified." The military may also benefit from participation in international peacekeeping operations, which […]

   • 1998, Stephen S. Large, Shōwa Japan: 1941-1952, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 101:

     […] "policified" or the police officials "socialized" to the need for positive social reform is, of course, difficult to determine.

   • (Can we date this quote?), California (State)., California. Court of Appeal (1st Appellate District). Records and Briefs: 2CRIM39009, Appellant's Opening, page 8:

     […] a sheet with numerous (mug-shot) photographs. It looks very 'policified', if I can use that term.

   • 2008 July 1, Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney Lopez, Jonathan Simon, After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 223:

     But there are different rationales to policify the society. A recent experience of mine illustrates this new reality. The other day I traded on racial privilege in the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station. I saw these BART police, these paramilitary BART cops, who […]

   • 2013 June 25, William Garriott, Policing and Contemporary Governance: The Anthropology of Police in Practice, Springer, →ISBN:

     […] police practices […] "policify" them [favelas]. Rather than normalizing notions of legality, or "prisonizing" the poor, police practices in favelas contribute to wider discourses of disorder and danger, and function as a mechanism by which social anxieties are […]

   • 2014 October 21, "The Criminalization of Schooling", Talking Points Memo:

     We've talked a lot about the militarization of policing. This is probably best termed the criminalizing or policifying of school.

   • 2019 December 5, Michael Salter, Kim McGuire, The Lived Experience of Hate Crime: Towards a Phenomenological Approach, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 49:

     […] "policified” version of what I had told him, using different terminology in places, and asked questions relevant to the satisfaction of established criminal law criteria. For example: 'did I feel threatened?' I was also asked to describe […]

   • 2020 November 12, Larrie Dudenhoeffer, Walls Without Cinema: State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First-Century US Filmmaking, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 74:

     […] "policified.” The two soldiers in the film therefore resemble security contractors more than they do infantrymen.