Absence of police.

An ideology or political practice that favors extensive, especially oppressive, policing.

simple past tense and past participle of self-police

To police and monitor amongst themselves without resorting to an external organisation.

(US, politics, law enforcement) A phrase used to counter "black lives matter", rallying people to defend police officers and their use of lethal force in carrying out their duties.

Alternative spelling of policework

(politics, historical) The doctrine put forth by Mikhail Gorbachev as part of his reforms of the Soviet Union. Its major elements were international collaboration, priority of universal human interests over the interests of any class, and mutual security based on political rather than military instruments.

A kind of canopy bed draped with a baldacchin.

plural of Polish bed

The police collectively; the system or practice of policing.