The term "docile population" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a people who are compliant and easy to control, either through politeness, obedience, or a low level of resistance. For example, "In colonial India, the docile population was easily subjugated by the British administration."
And no leader here can ever again count on a compliant, docile population.
"They want a frightened, docile population that's easily manipulated – and the arts are about thinking for yourself.
Today, Israeli Arabs marked their 25th Land Day in Israel, which commemorates their emergence from a relatively docile population into a political force during a large protest against land expropriations in 1976.
The magnitude of such public works and the distribution of temples suggest a dominant religious cult and a cadre of priest-rulers who could command the services of a large, stable, and docile population, as well as several artist-craftsman guilds.
The old order that was so comforting to Washington -- based on authoritarian regimes ruling over docile populations -- is over.
What better a way to keep the world's population docile and controllable?
But when they visit the nearest town, things seem off, as ringing bells turn the population oddly docile and the siblings' father seems to forget who they are.
Suddenly freed from their docile Catholicism, a liberated population wanted their own culture.
But, aside from a random attack here and there, centuries of porridge and prophecy have made the local hyena population so docile that small Harari children breezily wander out to the field to hand-feed scraps to the city's spirit animals.
Foucault (1984) coined this concept to account for the ways through which capillary forms of power insert themselves into actions, attitudes, and discourses to produce a particular kind of person and population-productive, but docile and easily governed.
"Such actions generally run counter to the smooth operation of a detention facility, attempting to maintain its population in a compliant and docile state".
