RT Article
T1 A high-profile police-involved shooting, civil unrest, and officers’ perceptions of legitimacy: insights from a natural experiment
JF Journal of experimental criminology
VO 17
IS 3
SP 507
OP 518
A1 Turchan, Brandon
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767896158
AB To examine the effects of a high-profile police-involved shooting that resulted in a civil unrest on officers’ attitudes towards their communities and job performance., A natural experiment design and original data from a population survey of 1,003 police officers in Newark are used to compare officers’ perceptions of community support for law enforcement, the impact of repeated media scrutiny of law enforcement on their job, and officers' aversion to discipline before and after the civil unrest that occurred in response to the controversial police shooting of Keith Scott in Charlotte., In the weeks after the Keith Scott incident, officers reported significantly lower levels of perceived community support for law enforcement and greater discipline aversion, while no significant change in the impact of media scrutiny was observed., Findings suggest officers may not be immune to controversies involving police in other cities and might project onto the communities they police the feelings of hostility expressed towards law enforcement elsewhere.
K1 Police shooting
K1 Police Legitimacy
K1 natural experiment
K1 Law Enforcement
DO 10.1007/s11292-020-09413-2