Abstract

VERDUZCO CHAVEZ, Basilio. Constructing Trust on State-Police-Community relationships, a problem of Institutional Design. URVIO [online]. 2017, n.20, pp.126-144. ISSN 1390-4299.  https://doi.org/10.17141/urvio.20.2017.2459.

This article presents an interpretation of insecurity, highlighting the lack of capacity of the State to integrate organizational and institutional solutions aimed at providing protection to police officers, building trust on police-society relationships, increasing police legitimacy and, therefore, reducing crime rates. Based on the analysis of the Mexican experience, this article looks at the lack of trust and the poor performance of police corps, consequences of institutional design failures. Such failures persist due to erroneous readings of actors´ rationalities and social change processes observed in the country, poor diagnostics of security problems, and confusion of implementation structures and target populations in public policies that integrate a graduated sovereignty strategy through which the state offers different levels of police protection to its citizens.

Keywords : Trust control; police; security; México; institutional change..

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