Racially Biased Policing: Determinants of Citizen Perceptions

Weitzer, Ronald; Tuch, Steven A.

doi:10.1353/sof.2005.0050

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“…While the majority of United States citizens embrace the protective power of law enforcement, much of which is determined by trust in police, numerous studies show that African Americans and Hispanics remain suspicious of police [47][48][49][50][51][52]. Findings from the current study indicate that juveniles represent a unique group that remains reluctant to report victimization to law enforcement.…”

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confidence: 82%

Reporting Violent Victimization to the Police: A Focus on Black, White, Asian and Hispanic Adolescent Victims

Rennison¹

2011

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Explorations of patterns of why and when citizens report crime to police are an important area of study in the field of criminology and criminal justice. Initial National Crime Survey data suggest that a substantial proportion of crime went unreported to the authorities (i.e., law enforcement reports as reflected by the Uniform Crime Reports). The purpose of this study is to enhance our understanding about reporting violence against adolescents to the police. This research examines the extent and nature of reporting violence against juveniles to the police, and specifically focuses on how reporting differs between white, black, Asian and Hispanic adolescents. This area is important to investigate to ascertain whether all groups have equal access to the benefits of the Criminal Justice system. Additionally, understanding why adolescent victims or their agents fail to engage the criminal justice system in the wake of a violent victimization is relevant to the development of policy addressing weaknesses in the police response and the particular vulnerabilities of minority victims and their communities.

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Reporting Violent Victimization to the Police: A Focus on Black, White, Asian and Hispanic Adolescent Victims

Rennison¹

2011

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“…Some research went further to incorporate individuals' personal or vicarious experiences, such as victimization and contact with police, into the analysis (e.g., Cao, Frank, & Cullen, 1996;Correia, Reisig, & Lovrich, 1996;Dean, 1980;Homant, Kennedy, & Fleming, 1984;Koenig, 1980;Priest & Carter, 1999;Tewksbury & West, 2001;Weitzer & Tuch, 2002). Recently interest in studying the impact of neighborhood contexts on residents' perceptions of police has emerged (e.g., Cao et al, 1996;Dunham & Alpert, 1988;Reisig & Parks, 2000Sampson & Jeglum-Bartusch, 1998;Weitzer, 1999Weitzer, , 2000Weitzer & Tuch, 2004a, 2005a, 2005b.…”

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“…From Bayley and Mendelsohn's (1969) early study of police-minority relations to Weitzer and Tuch's (2005b) recent analyses of racially biased policing, race has been one of the most important and consistent predictors of citizens' perceptions of police. A growing number of studies, however, question the primacy of race and stress the importance of neighborhood contextual characteristics in shaping citizens' evaluations of police.…”

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Race, Class or Neighborhood Context: Which Matters More in Measuring Satisfaction with Police?

Wu¹,

Sun²,

Triplett³

2009

Justice Quarterly

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The primary purpose of this study is to assess the relative effects of race and class, at both individual and neighborhood levels, on public satisfaction with police. Using hierarchical linear modeling on 1,963 individuals nested within 66 neighborhoods, this study analyzes how individual-level variables, including race, class, age, gender, victimization and contact with police, and neighborhood-level factors, including racial composition, concentrated disadvantage, residential mobility and violent crime rate, influence residents' satisfaction with police. The results from the individual-level analysis indicate that both race and class are equally important predictors. African Americans and lower-class people tend to be less satisfied with police. The significant effects of race and class, however, disappear when neighborhood-level characteristics are considered simultaneously. Neighborhood racial composition affects satisfaction with police, with residents in predominately White and racially mixed neighborhoods having more favorable attitudes than those in predominately African American communities. Further analyses reveal that African Americans in economically advantaged neighborhoods are less likely than Whites in the same kind of neighborhoods to be satisfied with police, whereas African Americans and Whites in disadvantaged communities hold similar levels of satisfaction with police. Implications for future research and policy are discussed.

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“…Ethnic minorities are likely to hold negative attitudes toward the police, often perceiving police officers as being unfair and prejudiced (Hurst, Frank, & Browning, 2000;Tyler & Huo, 2002;Weitzer & Tuch, 2005). Examination of police officers' attitudes and behavior has shown that these negative perceptions are not completely unwarranted.…”

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“…Evidently, police officers often interact with members of ethnic minorities during the exercise of their duty, and several authors have shown that minority members' negative attitudes toward the police arise from negative personal experiences (Hurst et al, 2000;Tyler & Huo, 2002;Weitzer & Tuch, 2005). An underinvestigated issue, however, is the possibility that police officers' attitudes and behavior are related to those daily intergroup experiences as well, which can, as we discuss below, be reasonably expected based on the existing contact literature and Allport (1954).…”

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Interracial public–police contact: Relationships with police officers’ racial and work-related attitudes and behavior

Dhont

Cornelis

Hiel

2010

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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In a sample of Flemish police officers (N = 172), we examined whether interracial public-police contact is associated with police officers' racial and workrelated attitudes and self-reported behavior. Complementing previous studies, it was revealed that interracial contact (both positive and negative) is related to prejudiced behavior toward immigrants via the mediating role of racial attitudes. Moreover, intergroup contact was also shown to be related to police officers' organizational citizenship behavior toward colleagues and superiors via their perceptions of organizational fairness. In the discussion section we elaborate on the severe impact of negative contact as well as the applied consequences of our findings within police organizations.

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Racially Biased Policing: Determinants of Citizen Perceptions

Cited by 413 publications

References 21 publications

Reporting Violent Victimization to the Police: A Focus on Black, White, Asian and Hispanic Adolescent Victims

Reporting Violent Victimization to the Police: A Focus on Black, White, Asian and Hispanic Adolescent Victims

Race, Class or Neighborhood Context: Which Matters More in Measuring Satisfaction with Police?

Interracial public–police contact: Relationships with police officers’ racial and work-related attitudes and behavior

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