Weak states whose courts work poorly breed police violence and gang patronage

Evidence

Its relatively weak government allowed plenty of scope for violent gangs that drew revenue from the cocaine trade but also often provided strong-arm support for local politicians when needed. That weakness combined with the sluggishness and corruption of courts to promote the police’s taking of law into its own hands. In addition to its spectacular homicide rates, Jamaica registers one of the world’s highest frequencies of police-killing (Piano and Puddington 2004, 288). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 514

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 514
• XREF: connects to: Illegal private violence has a political function only in politically enfeebled states — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 887; State violence falls along a spectrum from official to semiofficial to unofficial; Mafia failed to appear where ruling classes retained the monopoly on force (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The state recruits delinquents as an unaccountable parallel police and thug army #exemplifies (0.83) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 430
• Mafia failed to appear where ruling classes retained the monopoly on force #corroborates (0.80)
• Illegal private violence has a political function only in politically enfeebled states #corroborates (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 887
• State violence falls along a spectrum from official to semiofficial to unofficial #expands (0.72)