Dynamics of an American countermovement: Blue Lives Matter

Keyes, Vance D.; Keyes, Latocia

doi:10.1111/soc4.13024

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“…The period from 2012 to 2020 was characterized by increasing differences in feelings of racial animus expressed by Republican and Democratic voters (Crandall et al 2018; Engelhardt 2021a; Ruisch and Ferguson 2022). Additionally, this period was marked by a contentious presidential election, where race and police played a central role (Bobo 2017; Drakulich et al 2020), as well as a notable rise in public advocacy around issues of racial inequity in policing (Keyes and Keyes 2022). Considering this context, I explore how the Black/White racial disparity changed among White officers from 2012 to 2020, and I test whether the partisan identities of officers influenced these changes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The authors argue that this increase is a function of Trump’s racially inflammatory rhetoric, which tracks with work in political science that shows partisan rhetoric influences individuals most when it addresses politically contentious issues (Hersh and Goldenberg 2016; Slothuus 2010; Slothuus and de Vreese 2010). Accordingly, partisan identity among officers may be particularly salient in the contemporary period, considering the public debates and related political movements focused on racial discrimination in policing and police accountability (Keyes and Keyes 2022).…”

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“…In the post-Reconstruction South, police and sheriff’s deputies, acting under the direction of local political bosses, often participated in violence that terrorized Black citizens (Ayers 1985; Garland 2005). In the contemporary period, connections between police organizations and the Republican Party have grown stronger (Fineout 2022a), and both institutions have organized to oppose protests and other efforts to reduce police violence in Black communities (Keyes and Keyes 2022; Quinton 2021).…”

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The Politics of Police

Donahue

2023

Am Sociol Rev

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The connection between racially prejudiced policing and politics has a long history in the United States. In the current period, police organizations have displayed unprecedented support for Republican presidential candidates, and both have organized against social movements focused on addressing racial disparities in police contact. Yet despite strong connections between law enforcement and party politics, we know almost nothing about the relationship between partisan identity and the behavior of police officers. Using millions of traffic stop records from the Florida Highway Patrol and linked voter records, the present study shows that White Republican officers exhibit a larger racial disparity than White Democratic officers in their propensity to search motorists whom they have stopped. This result is robust to an array of alternative empirical tests and holds across varying sociodemographic contexts. I also find that both White Republican and White Democratic officers grew more biased between 2012 and 2020, a period characterized by the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the election of Donald Trump.

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The Politics of Police

Donahue

2023

Am Sociol Rev

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“…Equally threatening is the counter hashtagging that concocts similar hashtags to garner opposition to well-established movements (e.g. #BlueLivesMatter countermovement to police reform in reaction to #BlackLivesMatter [61]). These antagonistic appropriations of the social media virality, consequently, enabled political extremism to creep in the public discourse and embroil users in an emotionally-charged participation [95].…”

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Folk Models of Misinformation on Social Media

Sharevski¹,

Devine²,

Pieroni³

et al. 2023

Proceedings 2023 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium

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In this study, we interviewed 22 prominent hacktivists to learn their take on the increased proliferation of misinformation on social media. We found that none of them welcomes the nefarious appropriation of trolling and memes for the purpose of political (counter)argumentation and dissemination of propaganda. True to the original hacker ethos, misinformation is seen as a threat to the democratic vision of the Internet, and as such, it must be confronted on the face with tried hacktivists' methods like deplatforming the "misinformers" and doxing or leaking data about their funding and recruitment. The majority of the hacktivists also recommended interventions for raising misinformation literacy in addition to targeted hacking campaigns. We discuss the implications of these findings relative to the emergent recasting of hacktivism in defense of a constructive and factual social media discourse.

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“…Although police reform is a general public concern, police violence is specifically problematic for the Black community where it has been normalized as a response to crime (Akbar, 2018; Keyes and Keyes, 2022). Unprecedented public displays of police violence against Blacks in the 1960s generated substantive efforts to reform police through personnel diversity and civilian oversight (Breckenridge, 2018; Fairley, 2020; Keyes, 2014).…”

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A scoping review of police civilian oversight literature 1992–2022

Keyes

2023

PIJPSM

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PurposeThis study's aim was to systematically review available literature related to the establishment, purpose, operation, and effectiveness of civilian police oversight entities in the United States and to gain a deeper understanding of support, opposition, academic, public, and police expectations concerning their utility.Design/methodology/approach A Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) was used to analyze police civilian oversight literature published between 1992 and 2022.FindingsThe authors find racially biased policing, political investment, police resistance, oversight structure, scope, and authority are key components that determine how oversight is perceived.Research limitations/implications Based on the methodology, the results may not be generalizable. Future researchers should consider expanding public oversight research beyond the parameters, which constrained this paper.Practical implications This article contains implications that should be considered by jurisdictions seeking to develop, restructure, or eliminate public oversight entities and for recognizing the concerns of advocates and opponents of public oversight.Social implications Civilian oversight has long been considered a potential method for public inclusion if not a means for greater public control of police. Over the past few decades, a resurgence of interest in civilian oversight has emerged.Originality/value This article synthesizes literature that spans 30 years of research on public oversight.

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Dynamics of an American countermovement: Blue Lives Matter

Cited by 9 publications

References 70 publications

The Politics of Police

The Politics of Police

Folk Models of Misinformation on Social Media

A scoping review of police civilian oversight literature 1992–2022

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