Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive literature review of
empirical studies that have examined perceptions and attitudes of the police across various …

Given the historically contentious relationship–including most notably the use of excessive
and lethal force–between the police and African Americans, the current project examines the …

Purpose While there has been a sizeable amount of research on identifying the correlates of
citizen satisfaction with police agencies, that research has not been synthesized to identify …

This study extends the dominant Black–White paradigm in assessing public perceptions of
the police by including Hispanic and Asian Americans. Relying on a large random sample of …

Various factors have been identified by previous studies as predictive of citizens' attitudes
toward the police, but there has not been as much effort to establish whether higher …

Activated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for
civil rights in the United States. Responding to decades of abuse by law enforcement and an …

Purpose–Given the consistent finding in the literature that members of minority groups hold
less favorable views of the police than white citizens, social distance may be an important …

Most studies of police–minority relations in America focus on blacks, usually in comparison
with whites. This pattern is particularly puzzling in light of the growing population of Hispanic …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to better understand the institutional and external
factors associated with African-American and Latino representation in policing at the line …

Recent national events have brought the issue of police-community relations into the public
eye. Even though a large body of academic research exists on the predictors of public …