2023
DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12360
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Officer diversity may reduce Black Americans’ fear of the police

Justin T. Pickett,
Amanda Graham,
Justin Nix
et al.

Abstract: Would police racial and gender diversification reduce Black Americans’ fear of the police? The theory of representative bureaucracy indicates that it might. We tested the effects of officer diversity in two experiments embedded in a national survey that oversampled Black Americans, producing several findings. First, in early 2022, nearly 2 years after George Floyd's killing, most Black Americans remained afraid of police mistreatment. Second, in a conjoint experiment in which respondents were presented with 11… Show more

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“…As such, efforts to address public beliefs about racism and aggression in policing will have to, in part, center on providing evidence to the community that officers are not racist or obsessed with power and control. Current policy recommendations include the use of procedural justice in police-community interactions and police racial and gender diversification (Ba et al, 2022;Pickett et al, 2024;President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, 2015).…”
Section: Attributions Of Police Misconductmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As such, efforts to address public beliefs about racism and aggression in policing will have to, in part, center on providing evidence to the community that officers are not racist or obsessed with power and control. Current policy recommendations include the use of procedural justice in police-community interactions and police racial and gender diversification (Ba et al, 2022;Pickett et al, 2024;President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, 2015).…”
Section: Attributions Of Police Misconductmentioning
confidence: 99%