overpolice

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ police.

Verb

overpolice (third-person singular simple present overpolices, present participle overpolicing, simple past and past participle overpoliced)

1. (transitive) To police too much, as by patrolling a neighborhood excessively or meting out a punishment incommensurate to the severity of a crime.
   • 2016 July 1, Cory Doctorow, “White House plan to use data to shrink prison populations could be a racist dumpster fire”, in Boing Boing‎^[1]:

     Black people in America fit that description of being overpoliced and oversentenced.