Light Blue Versus Dark Blue: Attitudinal Differences in Quality-of-Life Policing

Boyd, Lorenzo M.

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“…3 Despite these circumstances, Blacks have been found to be more satisfied with both their police careers (Friday & Friday, 2003) and their organizational environment (Lasley & Hooper, 1998) than their White and Latino colleagues. Moreover, Boyd (2010) has argued that because Black officers tend to see themselves as community stewards in Black neighborhoods (Bolton & Feagin, 2004; Sun & Payne, 2004) and outperform their White colleagues at quality-of-life policing, “the goal of the Black police organizations should not be to simply foster ethnic pride but to become community activists” working to improve relationships between minority communities and police departments (p. 45).…”

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From Here On Out, We’re All Blue: Interaction Order, Social Infrastructure, and Race in Police Socialization

Conti

Doreian

2014

Police Quarterly

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Motivated by the complicated history of race relations in policing, this article offers a social network analysis of the formation of relationships between recruits in a police academy. While the quantitative analysis is the core of this article, it is framed by an ethnographic description of how the interaction order within the academy functions as a mechanism for maintaining racism within police organizations. The academy’s social infrastructure was designed to generate encounters between recruits of various races. Recruits were divided into subgroups, which generally reflected the overall demographics of the cohort, so recruits of different races could get to know each other. While this academy had some success in forming ties between Black, Latino, and White recruits, it fell short of achieving the stated ideal of “we’re all blue.” Our results suggest that achieving this ideal lies in a distant future.

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From Here On Out, We’re All Blue: Interaction Order, Social Infrastructure, and Race in Police Socialization

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Doreian

2014

Police Quarterly

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“…African American officers have historically been excluded from policing (Bolton, 2003; Leinen, 1984) and have notably different attitudes toward the community than their White peers (Table 5; Boyd, 2010). As such, we have chosen to disaggregate non-White representation and specifically examine the representation of African Americans in police agencies.…”

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Representative Bureaucracy

Morabito

Shelley

2015

Race and Justice

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The domination of policing by White males has long been considered a threat to the legitimacy of the profession, as police agencies have struggled with attracting, retaining, and promoting women and minorities within their agencies for decades. Female and minority representation are hardly stable across agencies with some agencies employing no women or people of color, while others are more representative of the communities they serve. Using a national sample of 1,478 police jurisdictions, this study further explores the correlates of diversity of women and racial minorities using a framework informed by representative bureaucracy theory. Findings suggest that the same factors are not predictive of representation of women and racial minorities.

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“…It is likely that one's Aboriginal status might influence their perceptions of policing, police-First Nations political arrangements and relationships, and the role of the FNPP. In his analysis of the perceptions of Black and White officers in the United States, for example, Boyd (2010) found that there was a significant difference in the manner that Black officers perceived law enforcement strategies (in the case of Boyd's research it was quality-of-life policing) and that Black officers were more likely to take a proactive approach. Boyd (2010: 44, 45) noted that: Black officers can .…”

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Officer Perceptions of Canada's ‘First Nations Policing Program’

Ruddell

Lithopoulos

2011

The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles

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This study examined the perceptions of service delivery and attitudes towards the First Nations Policing Program (FNPP) of 434 sworn officers working in Aboriginal communities. Officers working for self-administered police services (operated by First Nations) were less optimistic about both the effectiveness of service delivery and whether the goals of the FNPP were being met when compared with members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), who provided contract policing to these communities. These results suggest that officer experiences in policing, where they work, their demographic characteristics, as well as their organisational affiliation may shape their perspectives on policing. Implications for future research on Aboriginal, Indigenous and Tribal policing are outlined.

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Light Blue Versus Dark Blue: Attitudinal Differences in Quality-of-Life Policing

Cited by 5 publications

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From Here On Out, We’re All Blue: Interaction Order, Social Infrastructure, and Race in Police Socialization

From Here On Out, We’re All Blue: Interaction Order, Social Infrastructure, and Race in Police Socialization

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Officer Perceptions of Canada's ‘First Nations Policing Program’

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