African Americans' Attitudes Toward the Local Police

Parker, Keith D.; Onyekwuluje, Anne B.; Murty, Komanduri S.

doi:10.1177/002193479502500308

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“…Ordinary Least Squares Regression (OLS) has been a popular technique in numerous police satisfaction studies employed by, among others [13,15,18,28,37] . It is unlikely, however, that in any data set where the dependent variable can take on only one of a few values (four in the present study) that the requirements of OLS are fulfilled, making significance testing using OLS problematic.…”

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The Importance of Police Performance as a Determinant of Satisfaction with Police

Larsen¹

2009

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration

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Problem statement: Citizen satisfaction with police performance is an important concern of public managers because police performance is central to citizens and accounts for a large share of urban budgets. Also, there is substantial disagreement in the literature regarding determents of citizen satisfaction. Approach: Logistic regression was used to investigate the results of three public opinion surveys, conducted biannually, to identify determinants of citizen satisfaction with police. Results: The explanatory power of the models was indicated by concordance of over .80. The findings indicated that satisfaction was largely determined by citizen perception of police behaviors. Four variables reflecting perceptions of police performance were particularly important: Response time to a crime in progress, visibility on the street, the quality of the relationship between the police and community and police efforts to reduce crime, indicating a chi square significance of <0.001. Almost all demographic and other individual factors, as well as subjective measures of crime severity in the respondent's neighborhood were insignificant or less important. Conclusion/Recommendations: The findings suggested that public officials could improve citizen satisfaction by focusing on specific aspects of police behavior. Training programs should be oriented accordingly. Further research regarding how citizens interpret certain words, gestures, postures, or other behaviors by police promises to enhance satisfaction.

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The Importance of Police Performance as a Determinant of Satisfaction with Police

Larsen¹

2009

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration

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“…It has been found that people who reside in high crime rate neighborhoods and people who are fearful of crime in their neighborhoods tend to hold less positive views of police (Parker, Onyekwuluje, & Komanduri, 1995;Percy, 1980;Reisig & Giacomazzi, 1998;Reisig & Parks, 2000;Smith et al, 1991). Reisig and Parks (2000) found that homicide rate was inversely associated with satisfaction, but such a relationship was not statistically significant when concentrated disadvantage was added into the model.…”

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Race, Class or Neighborhood Context: Which Matters More in Measuring Satisfaction with Police?

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Triplett³

2009

Justice Quarterly

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The primary purpose of this study is to assess the relative effects of race and class, at both individual and neighborhood levels, on public satisfaction with police. Using hierarchical linear modeling on 1,963 individuals nested within 66 neighborhoods, this study analyzes how individual-level variables, including race, class, age, gender, victimization and contact with police, and neighborhood-level factors, including racial composition, concentrated disadvantage, residential mobility and violent crime rate, influence residents' satisfaction with police. The results from the individual-level analysis indicate that both race and class are equally important predictors. African Americans and lower-class people tend to be less satisfied with police. The significant effects of race and class, however, disappear when neighborhood-level characteristics are considered simultaneously. Neighborhood racial composition affects satisfaction with police, with residents in predominately White and racially mixed neighborhoods having more favorable attitudes than those in predominately African American communities. Further analyses reveal that African Americans in economically advantaged neighborhoods are less likely than Whites in the same kind of neighborhoods to be satisfied with police, whereas African Americans and Whites in disadvantaged communities hold similar levels of satisfaction with police. Implications for future research and policy are discussed.

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“…Although value systems about transgender people have changed in recent times, past studies (See Berrill, 1992;Herek, 1989;Finn & McNeil (1987) Berman & Robinson, 2010;Edelman, 2014;Grant, Mottet, Tanis, Harrison, Herman and Keisling, 2011;Heidenreich, 2011;Miles-Johnson, 2013b;Redfern, 2014;Wolff & Cokely, 2007, Woods, Galvan, Bazargan, Herman & Chen, 2013, with groups of police officers who collectively express negative language towards transgender people or dispense negative treatment to members of this community during engagement (See Grinc, 1994;Parker, Onyekwuluje, & Murty, 1995;Sadd & Grinc, 1994).…”

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Policing Diversity: Examining Police Resistance to Training Reforms for Transgender People in Australia

Miles-Johnson

2015

Journal of Homosexuality

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Using field notes collected from participant observation of Australian police officers training to work with the transgender community, the current research builds upon previous work examining Social Identity Theory (Tajfel, 2010) to explain how one training program implemented to educate police about transgender people challenges police culture. This research determines that police culture, training procedures, and stereotypes of gender are equally influential on police perceptions of all transgender people. Overall, the results indicate that negative police perceptions towards police training reforms strengthen in-group identity of police, and negative out-group perceptions of transgender people.

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African Americans' Attitudes Toward the Local Police

Cited by 68 publications

References 19 publications

The Importance of Police Performance as a Determinant of Satisfaction with Police

The Importance of Police Performance as a Determinant of Satisfaction with Police

Race, Class or Neighborhood Context: Which Matters More in Measuring Satisfaction with Police?

Policing Diversity: Examining Police Resistance to Training Reforms for Transgender People in Australia

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