Race

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

Abstract In Nebraska, concerns about racial disparities in traffic enforcement demand serious attention from police executives. Fortunately, other states like Connecticut have developed model practices that have been successfully adopted elsewhere, including Rhode Island, Oregon, and California. We propose to implement the Connecticut Model in Nebraska by creating an Advisory Board, securing and analyzing data compiled by the Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (NCC) with multiple “benchmark tests,” and developing and rolling out strategies to mitigate uncovered disparities (e.

Would police racial and gender diversification reduce Black Americans' fear of the police? The theory of representative bureaucracy indicates that it might. We tested the effects of officer diversity in two experiments embedded in a national survey …

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

**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 …

I’ve been screaming this into the void on Twitter lately so I figured I’d pull all my thoughts together in a blog post. On January 12th, ABC News published a story claiming that fatal police shootings had declined 13% in 2021 “amid calls for reform on use of force.” The story also claimed that Florida saw the biggest decrease in shootings (from 93 to 44).1 At that time, The Washington Post’s (WAPO) database was showing 888 fatal police shootings.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I was invited to write a formal comment on a recent analysis of fatal police shootings in US MSAs.

I was a guest on this podcast where we discuss what science tells us about police use of force.

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

Yesterday, Andy Wheeler posted a summary of the problems with recent studies about officer-involved shootings, including one my colleagues and I published in February 2017. As usual, Andy’s criticisms were thoughtful and spot on. And I hope I can take him up on that conference beer soon, even though he’s at a new job. That said, I do want to push back just a little about the motivation for our paper.

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

We use data on violence against police as a benchmark to understand racial disparities in OIS

Forthcoming at _JRCD_.

At the 2019 ASA Conference, Geoff Alpert and I discuss how misleading analyses of strictly fatal OIS can be.

My thoughts after reading.

A recent study suggests fatal encounters between police and unarmed black men has mental health consequences for the black community.

We discuss the importance of using an appropriate benchmark to compare racial differences in officer-involved shootings.

Experiments with officers from two agencies showed citizen demeanor affects their willingness to exercise procedural justice