id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-027765-jxxcvbna Jones, Daniel J The Potential Impacts of Pandemic Policing on Police Legitimacy: Planning Past the COVID-19 Crisis 2020-06-05 .txt text/plain 4375 205 49 The concept of police legitimacy implies that the police are seen as a legitimate power holder who uphold the law and operate in the community in a procedurally just way, giving a voice to the people they serve (Bottoms and Tankebe, 2012; Mazerolle et al., 2013; Tankebe et al., 2016) . An example of negative media during pandemic policing is reports coming from South Africa state that just days into their 21-day lockdown as a result of COVID-19, police are abusing their powers in multiple ways while enforcing their newly enhanced powers enacted from their Disaster Management Act: assaultive behaviour by police and the death of three people at the hands of law enforcement officers (Faull, 2020) . If the police respond with compassion and care when they are required to enforce public health laws due to the pandemic response of the respective nation, this could build police legitimacy in a time of crisis. ./cache/cord-027765-jxxcvbna.txt ./txt/cord-027765-jxxcvbna.txt