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Limitations of Police Reforms

This chapter provides an overview of the reform issues that police officers themselves talk about most often and that matter most for police response on the ground. It elaborates on Chinese police officers' resistance to reform and tells us about the relationship frontline police have with supervising authorities and the specific ways in which even well-intentioned reforms can undermine the ability of officers to perform their jobs, especially since the same is not true for reforms related to stability maintenance. The chapter also analyses the risks police officers face under the firearm restriction and reveals the human effects of police reform on the officers serving the state. But of course, not all reforms are received negatively by people on the front lines. By talking to street-level police about these issues, the chapter uncovers more about how police reform in China actually works and how various policies affect day-to-day operations. To fully assess police reform in China and understand why the ministry might enact policies that impose challenges for ground-level response, the chapter recalls the rationale behind the Public Security Bureau's reform agenda.