Police

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 present findings from my latest paper on police shootings with John Shjarback.

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

We compile nonfatal police shooting data from four states and find that some racial disparities are larger than previously thought.

Using NIBRS data, we show domestic incidents are _not_ more likely to involve officers being assaulted or injured

We examine the effect of COVID-19 on domestic violence, as measured by daily calls to 911 and Victim Service Agencies’ emergency hotlines.

Earlier today I was reminded of some data I’m sitting on that my colleagues and I never published anywhere. This comes from a web-based survey of police officers at a large, southern agency that we administered in 2018. The response rate was 31%. So we asked officers to consider eight ideas that “have been proposed as ways to improve policing” and indicate the extent they supported or opposed each. We listed a hodgepodge of “reforms” including some that would (1) expand police authority, (2) restrict police authority, or (3) increase citizen oversight.

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, …