RT Article
T1 Police self-legitimacy and democratic orientations: Assessing shared values
JF International journal of police science & management
VO 23
IS 4
SP 431
OP 444
A1 White, David R.
A2 Kyle, Michael J.
A2 Schafer, Joseph A. 1973-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1775776093
AB Using a sample of frontline police officers from several mid-sized municipal police departments in the United States, this study explores the relationships between frontline police officers’ self-legitimacy, organizational fit, moral alignment with policed communities, and attitudes toward democratic policing principles. Using partial least squares structural equation modeling, the analysis frames democratic policing using a formative latent construct to test several hypotheses. The results support a direct positive relationship between self-legitimacy and attitudes toward democratic policing, and suggest the relationship is partially mediated by officers' perceptions of moral alignment with their policed communities. The results further demonstrate that self-legitimacy is significantly related to organizational fit, but organizational fit does not appear to mediate the relationship between self-legitimacy and attitudes toward democratic policing.
K1 Value congruence
K1 democratic policing
K1 Police self-legitimacy
DO 10.1177/14613557211032603