underpolice en · VERB
Etymology
From under- + police.
Meanings
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(transitive) To police too little.
They don’t differ in terms of arrests for violent crime and property crime. However, we find that Black officers make less arrests related to drug offenses. There is this underpolicing argument that you’re making for drug offenses.
2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| underpolicing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| underpoliced | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| underpoliced | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| underpolices | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |