Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Volume 23 Issue 1 Article 12 Winter 2016 Global Insecurity: How Risk Theory Gave Rise to Global Police Militarization Nicholas S. Bolduc Indiana University Maurer School of Law,
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[email protected]. Global Insecurity: How Risk Theory Gave Rise to Global Police Militarization NICHOLAS S. BOLDUC* ABSTRACT Today, across the globe, police agencies are militarizing to confront modern-day threats. This gradual shift towards militarized policing stems from the concept of risk-risk has driven nations to amend their laws so that their law enforcement agencies may militarize to meet whatever risk they face. In the United States, the gradual shift towards militarizedpolice occurred after the crippling of the Posse Comitatus Act in the face of the developing 'War on Drugs" However, America is a late development in this trend; the majority of the Western world militarized themselves through the concept of 'gendarmes", while the Chinese militarized their police immediately after the Communist Revolution.