“…Police-involved deaths in the United States and Canada, among other countries, have been a key catalyst to international discussions focused on public perceptions of police legitimacy (Crow, Snyder, Crichlow, & Smykla, 2017;Jennings, Fridell, & Lynch, 2014;White, Todak, & Gaub, 2017). Police legitimacy is a complex theoretical concept that "is multi-dimensional in character, comprising judgments about actual or perceived police procedural justice, distributive justice, legality, and effectiveness" (Tankebe, 2014, p. 239), and it relies on the belief that an authority is entitled to be obeyed (Sunshine & Tyler, 2003).…”