{"id":63633,"date":"2022-09-28T17:14:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63633"},"modified":"2022-09-28T17:14:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:14:30","slug":"the-rise-of-public-health-and-green-police-securitization-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63633","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of Public Health and \u2018Green\u2019 Police: Securitization Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article_page_big_img wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/police-scaled.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/police-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/police-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/police-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/police-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/police-2048x1335.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1668\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-title-section\">\n<h3 class=\"top-article-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/all-articles\/news-analysis\/the-rise-of-public-health-and-green-police-securitization-theory\/\">The Rise of Public Health and \u2018Green\u2019 Police: Securitization Theory<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article_main\" class=\"article_text\" data-find=\"_1\">\n<p>Policing has come a long way since the days of good ole boy Barney Fife.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barney Fife Best Moments\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ex1-wubjEbM?feature=oembed\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, cops were tasked primarily with things like catching murderers and rapists and protecting property.<\/p>\n<p>They were always used, of course, whenever necessary, to protect state interests \u2013 but, then again, the state\u2019s interests weren\u2019t always so obviously nefarious and illegitimate as they are today.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement\u2019s purview expansion is explained in large part by securitization theory.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the this process, peculiar new breeds of law enforcement \u2013 Public Health\u00a9 officers and green police \u2013 have sprung up throughout the West.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Securitization theory: the advent of new security threats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-ir.info\/2018\/01\/14\/securitisation-theory-an-introduction\/\">basic premise of securitization theory in political science<\/a>\u00a0is that, given the opportunity, a state will endlessly concoct new security \u201cthreats\u201d as a justification to exercise greater power outside of the constraints of the normal political process:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cSecuritisation theory shows us that\u00a0<strong><u>national security policy is not a natural given, but carefully designated by politicians and decision-makers.<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0According to securitisation theory,\u00a0<strong><u>political issues are constituted as extreme security issues<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0to be dealt with urgently when they have been labelled as \u2018dangerous\u2019\u2026 by a \u2018securitising actor\u2019 who has the social and institutional power to move the issue \u2018beyond politics\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The process, in a nutshell, works like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government identifies a new existential \u201cthreat,\u201d either legitimate or overblown, either naturally occurring or cynically engineered by the state itself.<\/li>\n<li>The corporate media and corporate state stoke fear about the threat into the hearts and minds of a gullible public<\/li>\n<li>In the fog of panic, the state slyly provisions itself with new authority and resources to combat the threat, thereby increasing its power<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The threats change, but whether \u201cdomestic terrorism,\u201d COVID-19, or climate change, the process largely remains the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rise of Public Health and \u2018Green\u2019 Police: Securitization Theory Policing has come a long way since the days of good ole boy Barney Fife. Once upon a time, cops were tasked primarily with things like catching murderers and rapists and protecting property. They were always used, of course, whenever necessary, to protect state interests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31075,141,29011,1406,632,637,33199,712,15276],"class_list":["post-63633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ben-bartee","tag-climate-change","tag-covid-19","tag-green-energy","tag-police","tag-politics","tag-securitization-theory","tag-security","tag-the-daily-bell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63634,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63633\/revisions\/63634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}