Legitimacy

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.