What does the public want police to do during pandemics? A national experiment

Abstract

Research Summary We administered a survey experiment to a national sample of 1068 U.S. adults in April 2020 to determine the factors that shape support for various policing tactics in the midst of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Respondents were sharply divided in their views about pandemic policing tactics and were least supportive of policies that might limit public access to officers or reduce crime deterrence. Information about the health risks to officers, but not to inmates, significantly increased support for “precautionary” policing, but not for “social distance” policing. The information effect was modest, but may be larger if the information came from official sources and/or was communicated on multiple occasions. Other factors that are associated with attitudes toward pandemic policing include perceptions of procedural justice, altruistic fear, racial resentment, and authoritarianism. Policy Implications When considered together with other evidence, one clear takeaway from our study is that the public values police patrols and wants officers on call, even during pandemics. Another is that people who believe the police are procedurally just are more willing to trust officers in times of crisis and to empower them to enforce new laws, such as social distancing ordinances. Our results thus support continued procedural justice training for officers. A third takeaway is that agencies must proactively communicate with the public about the risks their officers face when responding to public health crises or natural disasters, in addition to how they propose to mitigate those risks. They must also be amenable to adjusting in response to community feedback.

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“…predpisov pa so se prav tako omajali temelji legitimnosti policije (Kyprianides et al, 2021;Mazerolle in Ransley, 2021). Kljub obstoječim razpravam in raziskavam pa je v literaturi mogoče opaziti primanjkljaj študij o delovanju policij v času kriznih razmer, ki bi prispevale k razumevanju organizacijskih in delovnih sprememb ter primernih modelov policijske dejavnosti (Nix et al, 2021).…”

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“…People's refusal to comply with enforcement during emergency PPKM is the result of neglect of discipline so far. Revitalization of discipline is needed as an ecosystem of positive behavior on a wide scale [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39] through the application of a combination of three Es. If it is successfully created, Indonesia will lead to the realization of the social discipline that is very much needed to fight the spread of COVID-19 consistently even though it remains dynamic.…”

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“…Države so kot po tekočem traku sprejemale novo kaznovalno zakonodajo (Meško in Urbas, 2021), pri čemer je uveljavljenje le-te zaradi nenehnih sprememb (tako na ravni pravil kot samega izvajanja postopkov) in nejasnih usmeritev potekalo neenotno, kar je v delo policistov vnašalo še več negotovosti (Frenkel et al, 2021). Za potrebe izvajanja novih nalog je bilo treba razviti tudi nove strategije dela ter naloge s področja obvladovanja kriminalitete v veliki meri preusmeriti v druge dejavnosti, povezane z zagotavljanjem javnega zdravja (Matarazzo et al, 2020;Nix, Ivanov in Pickett, 2021).…”

“…Poleg študij, ki so se osredotočale na psihološke in zdravstvene posledice pandemije med policisti, pa so aktualne tudi raziskave o zaznavi dela policije v tem času. V raziskavi, opravljeni med ameriško populacijo, so raziskovalci denimo ugotovili, da so ljudje razumeli nove zahteve in izzive policije, v času pandemije pa so pričakovali, da se bo policija manj osredotočala na manjše kršitve in bo v svojih ukrepih manj represivna ter bo nadaljevala s preventivnimi dejavnostmi (Nix et al, 2021). Medtem pa je študija, izvedena v kriminalitetno obremenjenih lokalnih skupnostih v ameriški zvezni državi Missouri, pokazala, da so prebivalci v času epidemije zaznali manjšo prisotnost in odzivnost policije ter vključenost policije v skupnost, kar je vplivalo na poslabšanje občutkov varnosti med prebivalci (Nouri in Kochel, 2021).…”