Does representation matter: examining officer inclusion, citizen cooperation and police empowerment in a divided society

Muibu, Daisy; Olawole, Ifeoluwa

doi:10.1080/14678802.2022.2056394

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“…Inclusion of all officers within police organizations is likely to increase the mental capacity of officers and reduce workplace stressors [74]. Lack of inclusion, therefore, may increase the likelihood that officers rejected by diverse identification may result in poor workplace performance, differential policing of citizens, and attrition from policing [7,75]. If the inclusion of all officers is to be effective, police organizations must target diversity bias and address officer wellbeing, thereby creating (and supporting) an inclusive work environment.…”

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“Being Diverse and Being Included, Don’t Go Together in Policing”—Diversity, Inclusion, and Australian Constables

Miles-Johnson

Fay‐Ramirez

2022

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Across the globe, there is little research that examines the impact of diversity on police practice, particularly whether it increases or decreases the competency of the police organization or whether police officers perceive diversity within the organization and the addition of diverse officers as positive or negative. Contributing new findings to the extant policing literature, this research analyzes data collected from interviews with forty-six constables working in one of the largest Australian state police organizations. Contributing five key findings regarding diversity and inclusion in policing, this research suggests that lack of acceptance of diversity broadly, and bias towards diverse identified officers, results in the exclusion of officers, and a workforce that is fragmented. The lack of unification constables in this research have with diverse colleagues is concerning given that a cohesive police team increases the safety of all officers, improves the effectiveness of police response, strengthens the communication between police and citizens (as well as communication within the organization), increases the morale of officers, and will support the legitimacy of the organization. Whilst constables in this study were not asked questions about their own implicit or explicit levels of bias towards members of diverse groups, the unsolicited responses from many of the constables, as well as the recognition of Whiteness in terms of the racial identity of many officers within the organization, suggests that constables in this study are biased towards officers that are not part of the majority group.

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“Being Diverse and Being Included, Don’t Go Together in Policing”—Diversity, Inclusion, and Australian Constables

Miles-Johnson

Fay‐Ramirez

2022

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“…According to work on empowerment, this authorisation process also includes deferring to the right of the police to judge for themselves the appropriateness of existing and new powers and technologies (cf. McLean andNix 2022, Muibu andOlawole 2022). When people view the police as legitimate holders of power, they also tend to assume that new powers and technologies will be beneficial and will not be misusedthat is, they defer to the judgment of the police in how to fulfil their function in normatively appropriate ways.…”

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Public support for empowering police during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from London

Yesberg¹,

Hobson²,

Pósch³

et al. 2021

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In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, police services around the world were granted unprecedented new powers to enforce social distancing restrictions to help to get the virus under control. Using data from a representative survey of Londoners fielded during the height of the first wave of the pandemic (April – June 2020), we explore the scale of public support for giving police additional powers to enforce the regulations, how support for different powers changed over time, and what factors predicted support. Aside from one lockdown-specific factor, we find that even in the midst of a pandemic, trust, legitimacy and affect were the most important predictors of support for police empowerment.

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Eco-pesantren: Islamic Education in Forest Conservation Landscapes

Subaidi,

Tantowi,

Cholid

et al. 2023

Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci.

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Does representation matter: examining officer inclusion, citizen cooperation and police empowerment in a divided society

Cited by 7 publications

References 78 publications

“Being Diverse and Being Included, Don’t Go Together in Policing”—Diversity, Inclusion, and Australian Constables

“Being Diverse and Being Included, Don’t Go Together in Policing”—Diversity, Inclusion, and Australian Constables

Public support for empowering police during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from London

Eco-pesantren: Islamic Education in Forest Conservation Landscapes

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