Legitimacy

We discuss procedural justice theory and some of my own research on the topic.

We discuss police killings, legitimacy, and the "war on cops."

A list of the panels I'm involved in at the November 2022 meeting.

**Objectives**: Judgments about police procedural fairness consistently have a stronger influence on how the public ascribes legitimacy to the police than evaluations of police effectiveness. What remains largely underexplored, however, is the …

We show how agencies can use data to determine the effect of patrol staffing levels on response times

At the 2022 ACJS Conference, my colleagues and I present an ongoing project on the relationship between police discretionary behaviors and crime in Denver.

We discuss how I got into academia, as well as my research on police legitimacy, organizational justice, the Ferguson Effect, and officer decision-making.

Session three of this webinar series was held on Wednesday, December 1, at 1:00 p.m., ET, and focused on innovative methods to engage with community partners to understand issues and work together to reduce crime and protect communities. The session featured a unique panel of law enforcement leaders and interviews with nationally recognized National College Athletic Association (NCAA) coaches who have worked to form innovative partnerships between local police officers and student athletes.

At the 2021 ASC Conference, I was a guest on Ep. 42 of Jerry Ratcliffe's Reducing Crime Podcast

At the 2021 ASC Conference, I discuss a recent paper on legitimacy and empowerment with Kyle McLean.

Police resignations - but not retirements or involuntary separations - spiked significantly in a large western department following the George Floyd protests.

A roundtable about disparities in policing and how to address them. With Sadaf Hashimi, Tracie Keesee, and Seth Stoughton (moderated by Walter Katz). Click on the Video button above to watch.

Despite considerable evidence that police legitimacy results in beneficial outcomes like compliance, cooperation, and empowerment, scholars have yet to agree on how to define and operationalize legitimacy. Drawing on Max Weber’s facets of legitimacy, …

We argue that Denver’s 2020 crime spike was likely the result of a police legitimacy crisis.

**Research Summary**: We administered a survey experiment to a national sample of 1,068 US adults in April 2020 to determine the factors that shape support for various policing tactics in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents were sharply …

A discussion about the function of police, the role of police oversight, and various reforms that have been suggested.

A discussion about reimagining policing in America.

Body-worn cameras (BWC) have diffused rapidly throughout policing as a means of promoting transparency and accountability. Yet, whether to release BWC footage to the public remains largely up to the discretion of police executives, and we know little …

I briefly summarize the literature on procedural justice theory and identify some avenues for future research.

We explore state-level variation and trends over time in gun assaults of police officers.

We examine factors associated with BWC usage in municipal PDs as of 2018.

We examine police perceptions of their legitimacy in the eyes of the public, using survey data from two police samples.

Forthcoming at _JRCD_.

Like patrol officers, police managers report less motivation and job satisfaction since Ferguson

A survey of over 200 command-level cops in a southeastern state indicates they believe a *war on cops* has resulted in de-policing