underpolice

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ police.

Verb

underpolice (third-person singular simple present underpolices, present participle underpolicing, simple past and past participle underpoliced)

1. (transitive) To police too little.
   • 2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't‎^[1]:

     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.

Antonyms

• overpolice