and their rank (i.e., patrol officer or supervisor-including the ranks of sergeants and above). Forty police officers from a population of903 former LPD and JCPD members, still on LMPD at the time of this study, agreed to participate. Police officers hired postconsolidation (295 officers) were not included in the population for this study.vi The findings in this study indicate that: 1) police view a just or fair department based upon justice rules (i.e., equality, accountability, and flexibility/discretion) and interpersonal (i.e., comparisons made between officers on the same department) and interdepartmental comparisons (i.e., comparisons made between departments); 2) justice judgments can result in negative reactions directed toward the administration, but that an officer's sense of professionalism or lack of control of the situation could influence how he/she reacts; 3) police officers form overall perceptions based upon a value assessment of justice component and justice source; and 4) LPD and JCPD officers differed on their perceptions of fairness, based in part upon the issue of parity (i.e., pay and benefits).vii