Baptist policing in Burma: swarming, vigilantism or community self-help?

Naing Ko Ko; John Braithwaite

doi:10.1080/10439463.2019.1585849

Baptist policing in Burma: swarming, vigilantism or community self-help?

Naing Ko Ko, John Braithwaite^*

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This is a study of how vacuums in state services attract alternative providers. Christian churches in Kachin state engage in police work to tackle drug markets in response to heavy participation of state police in those markets and limited police interest in regulating them. Churches aim to induce democratisation of the police and responsiveness of the police to the rule of law. They have arrested police and helped catalyse many dozens of prosecutions of police for drug offences or drug-related corruption in Kachin state. Baptist police in the Golden Triangle use nonviolent swarming as an alternative to carrying arms when arresting heavily armed drug kingpins, police and military, and when seizing drugs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	688-703
Number of pages	16
Journal	Policing and Society
Volume	30
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1585849
Publication status	Published - 2 Jul 2020

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