11. Policing Iraq: Protecting Iraqis from Criminal Violence
- Author:
- Robert Perito
- Publication Date:
- 06-2006
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- United States Institute of Peace
- Abstract:
- Public opinion surveys show that Iraqis feel the greatest security threat they face is not the insurgency or sectarian conflict but pervasive criminal violence. For a people accustomed to a stifling regime security presence under Saddam Hussein—and the correspondingly safe streets—the post-intervention upsurge in murder, home invasion robbery, kidnapping, carjacking, and rape is fundamentally disturbing.
- Topic:
- Security, Civil Society, and Crime
- Political Geography:
- Iraq and Middle East