Police

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, …

Summary Study after study has shown that help-seeking for domestic violence increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. My colleague, Tara Richards (Faculty Lead for SCCJ’s Victimology and Victim Studies Research Lab), was quick to observe that all of the research to date has relied on official data (e.g., calls for police service, reported crimes). Research has yet to consider whether victim service agency hotlines experienced an uptick in calls during COVID-19.

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

In 5 of 6 jurisdictions, domestic violence calls for police service spiked during stay-at-home orders

We evaluated the effect of a mandatory SAK testing policy on the monthly rape arrest rate in a western jurisdiction

Correcting 91 misclassified incidents renders Bor et al.’s (2018) key finding non-significant.

Our survey experiment suggests the wording of questions about police fairness matters.

**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 …