Comparing the police and citizen views on biased policing

Ioimo, Ralph; Becton, J. Bret; Meadows, L.; Tears, Rachel S.; Charles, Michael

doi:10.1080/14786010902975408

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“…The researchers identified that police and citizens had opposing views on bias-based policing issues. For instance, their results showed that 42.8 per cent of citizens felt that bias-based policing was present in Virginian police departments, while 21 per cent of police officers reported that bias-based policing was presently practised within their organization (Ioimo, Becton, Meadows, Tears, & Charles, 2009).…”

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Comparing Police and Public Perceptions of a Routine Traffic Encounter

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Lyndel has a strong background in both criminology and traffic psychology and her PhD examined young driver experiences of, and compliance with, graduated driver licensing systems. Her current research interests include policing, the intersection of health and criminology, criminological theory and the translation of research into policy. Comparing Police and Public Perceptions of a Routine Traffic Encounter Police perceptions of procedural justice are less well understood than citizen perceptions. Our paper compares the views of police officers and citizens of a routine Australian policing encounter, the Random Breath Test. We examine perceptions of two versions of their encounter: a business as usual and a more explicitly procedurally just interaction. Our results indicate that the procedurally just version affected the views of police officers, but not drivers, regarding the reasons for conducting Random Breath Tests. It also appears that police officers believe that the encounter has a greater impact on drivers' views than the drivers report themselves. This study has important implications for policing as it demonstrates that incorporating procedural justice within police-citizen interactions affects police officers as well as the citizens. It also highlights the importance of using external (e.g. larger community) measures, in addition to internal measures (e.g. within police organization), when assessing the effectiveness of police organizations to ensure a more complete picture.

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confidence: 99%

Comparing Police and Public Perceptions of a Routine Traffic Encounter

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“…In fact, numerous police officials suggest that complaints of racial profiling are nothing more than perceptual misunderstandings due to citizen’s lack of understanding the strategies, procedures, techniques, and legal standards used by law enforcement in their daily activities (Covington, 2001). Consequently, some police managers may have turned a blind eye to any known instances of improper conduct in this regard (Ioimo, Meadows, Becton, Tears, & Charles, 2008; Wilson & Wilson, 2014).…”

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Perceptions of African American Police Officers on Racial Profiling in Small Agencies

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2015

Journal of Black Studies

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Most assessments of the impact and effects of biased-based policing have been reviewed from the aspect of officer-citizen interaction during traffic stops, with the majority of studies focusing on these occurrences in larger police jurisdictions. Yet police officers themselves, and particularly African American officers, bring a completely different perspective to this issue that has not been fully considered or developed, especially where it concerns the smaller agencies that make up the bulk of the nation's police community. This study considers the perceptions of African American police officers regarding the presence and impact of biased-based policing in their agencies, as well as their perceptions of the positive or negative effects of their presence in these small local police agencies.

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“…In the USA, Ioimo, Becton, Meadows, Tears, and Charles (2009) studied bias-based policing beyond traffic stop data by surveying the officers and the citizens to compare views of both of these groups. Ioimo et al (2009) found that black and white citizens, as well as black and white officers, have differing views on bias-based policing issues. Two questions on the police officer questionnaire and one question on the citizen questionnaire addressed the presence of bias-based policing in Virginia police departments.…”

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confidence: 97%