Overpolice

Quick meaning: Overpolice is a verb meaning (transitive) To police too much, as by patrolling a neighborhood excessively or meting out a punishment incommensurate to the severity of a crime.

Meaning

(transitive) To police too much, as by patrolling a neighborhood excessively or meting out a punishment incommensurate to the severity of a crime.

Example Sentences

Black people in America fit that description of being overpoliced and oversentenced.

So if you live in a zip code that has been overpoliced historically, you are going to have overarresting. And we know that the overpolicing and the overarresting happens in Black and Latino communities. That's just a fact.

First, many veterans of protest marches believe that the police overpolice these events. Second, why are the police still willing to protect a St. Patrick's Day Parade if security concerns and costs are suddenly so important?

Part of the difference in attitudes comes from African Americans’ experiences within a racially biased criminal justice system that overpolices black and brown neighborhoods and rarely holds officers accountable for reported mistreatment, excessive force, or even killing African Americans.

Word Forms

• overpolices
• overpolicing
• overpoliced

Antonyms for overpolice

Common opposites include underpolice.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hyperpolice, overpenalize, overpolish, overpunish, overprosecute, overpenalise.

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