policification means the act or process of subjecting to police and policing.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, policification ranks #20,664 of 20,681 for Qualifying.
Etymology
From police + -ification or policify + -ication.
noun
- The act or process of subjecting to police and policing.“[…]policification of the city. There are 20,000 law enforcement officers in L.A. LAPD's Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) program routinely conducts "field interviews" in which nonwhite youth are forced to […]”
- The act or process of making more police-like.“[…]"policification" of the military mandate (Crelinsten 1998: 399–400). A country's armed forces are trained for an external security role and should be used only in emergencies where maximum use of force is needed.”