A Black Belt Anomaly: Biracial Cooperation in Reconstruction-era Perry County, 1865-1874

English, Bertis

doi:10.1353/ala.2009.0007

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“…In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Americans feared urbanization and organized police departments formed to maintain the racial status quo (Potter, 2013). Officers enforced segregation and tolerated crimes that were committed to maintain racial hierarchies (English, 2009). Officers sometimes participated in lynchings and departments often did nothing to prevent racial violence (Fischer-Stewart, 2017;King, 2011;Teague, 2019).…”

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Communicating Reform: Testing an Apology for Police History as a Supplement to a Policy Communication

Benton

2021

The American Review of Public Administration

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Policing in the United States has a racist history, with negative implications for its legitimacy among African Americans today. Legitimacy is important for policing's effective operations. Community policing may improve policing's legitimacy but is difficult to implement with fidelity and does not address history. An apology for policing's racist history may work as a legitimizing supplement to community policing. On the other hand, an apology may be interpreted as words without changes in practices. Using a survey vignette experiment on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to sample African Americans, this research tests the legitimizing effect of a supplemental apology for historical police racism during a community policing policy announcement. Statistical findings suggest that supplementing the communication with an apology imparted little to no additional legitimacy on policing among respondents. Qualitative data suggested a rationale: Apologies need not indicate future equitable behavior or policy implementation, with implementation itself seeming crucial for police legitimacy improvements.

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Communicating Reform: Testing an Apology for Police History as a Supplement to a Policy Communication

Benton

2021

The American Review of Public Administration

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“…Police departments in this period often tolerated crimes that society understood were committed to maintain racial hierarchies (English, 2009). Police officers sometimes participated in lynchings and other violence against African Americans themselves, and when not actively participating, police departments often did nothing to prevent racial violence in society Fischer-Stewart, 2017;Teague, 2019).…”

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Communicating reform: apologies and policy implementation for policing's history

Benton¹

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Governments sometimes apologize for their mistakes but apologizing for mistakes does not always impart legitimacy on governments. Policing's history in the United States creates the context through which policing is understood today. Because people are socialized into understanding government throughout their lives, individuals come to an understanding of what police are like, how police act, and biases that police have. Policing's history is full of enforcing racial inequity which creates a context today that imparts illegitimacy, especially among African Americans, and legitimacy is crucial for government's effective operations. After conducting a literature review and exploratory qualitative research, this dissertation designed two experiments to test apology's effects on police legitimacy among African American respondents. The initial experiment showed little legitimizing effects on the police from a supplementary apology. The second experiment showed some legitimizing effect from a police chief apologizing for policing's history, especially compared to not responding to policing's history at all, but sustained policy reform implementation seems to be a stronger and more durable approach. While administrators like police have the ability to address the past through reconciliation, they also have the power to change the future through policy implementation.

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“To Furnish Specimens of Negro Eloquence”: William J. Simmons'sMen of Markas a Site of Late-Nineteenth-Century African American Rhetorical Education

McClish

2014

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

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A Black Belt Anomaly: Biracial Cooperation in Reconstruction-era Perry County, 1865-1874

Cited by 4 publications

References 50 publications

Communicating Reform: Testing an Apology for Police History as a Supplement to a Policy Communication

Communicating Reform: Testing an Apology for Police History as a Supplement to a Policy Communication

Communicating reform: apologies and policy implementation for policing's history

“To Furnish Specimens of Negro Eloquence”: William J. Simmons'sMen of Markas a Site of Late-Nineteenth-Century African American Rhetorical Education

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