Title:	Democratic Policing in Transitional and Developing Countries
Authors:	Pino, Nathan W. NATHAN W. PINO and MICHAEL D. WIATROWSKI
Keywords:	Police Developing countries
Issue Date:	2006
Publisher:	Ashgate
Description:	Democratization has become one of the dominant international issues of this new century (Barber 2000). The fundamental precept of democracy is that of human freedom and to develop the capacity to enjoy that freedom. But it is not the freedom that Anatole France (1916) noted when he stated, “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” Prior to the democratic revolution aristocracies were concerned with the Divine Rights of kings, but for the fi rst time on a large scale the rights of mankind became paramount. After 4,000 years of hereditary forms of rule, most of which were not benign, we are now experiencing an era where individuals constitute their government and attempt to maximize their freedom. This same era, however, has also seen many autocracies of unparalleled savage callousness, where a small group imposes and maintains its will on those it oppresses. These autocracies frequently emerge from some vision of society that is maintained by an infrastructure of repression as we have seen in Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Hussein’s Iraq, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, or Pinochet’s Chile. There is also a laundry list of vicious tyrants in post-colonial Africa who learned the tools of oppression from their colonial masters and who have kept a continent of unmatched richness mired in corruption, oppression and poverty.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/45708
ISBN:	0-7546-4719-6
Appears in Collections:	Environmental and Development Studies

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