Terrorism Policing

How is the public responding to officers? Police Legitimacy under the spotlight: media coverage of police performance in the face of a high terrorism threat is article by Sela-Shayovitz an Israeli professor (2014). He said in general after an attack occurs the public is more willing to work with the officers. Between September 2000 and December 2007 there were 187 suicide bombers, but there were also 552 terrorists arrested. There were over 4,000 injured and 600 killed. His study revealed that, “terrorism threat was significantly and positively related to police legitimacy (pg.119).” Schulhofer and his colleges wrote an article that discusses the legitimacy and deterrence effect on counterterrorism policing. Their primary focus is on the Islamic communities in America because …show more content…
One of the first statements made is that the immigrant community (consist of South Asian Muslims and Arabs) is a primary focus of police officers in New York and Michigan. The author mentioned two types of policing, which are different than community based and intelligence led policing. The two types are instrumental and normative models of policing. Instrumental is defined as expected rewards and penalties for cooperation. Normative focuses on legitimacy and morality. Instrumental policing is based on the public obeying the law for fear of punishment or the public will aid and assist the officers so that they will not be harassed by them. The paper then changes direction and focuses on terrorism prevention through deterrence. With deterrence, the community may expect rewards for not being involved with radical organizations or again to not be harassed. Schulhofer reaffirms authors Utlah, Hussain and Sajid by