Survey

Policing scholars frequently use surveys to understand officer attitudes and behavioral intentions. Yet, it is difficult to gain access to one - let alone multiple - agencies. Thus, officer surveys often reflect views in a single department, making …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Published Open Access in Journal of Experimental Criminology.

At the 2019 ASC Conference, I present findings from research with Natalie Todak and Brandon Tregle on BWCs and police transparency.

Forthcoming at _JRCD_.

Three experiments showed that citizen demeanor affects officers’ emotions and cognitions, independent of compliance

We examined trends and correlates of response rates to police surveys published in 15 journals from 2008 to 2017

We revisit classic literature regarding the effects of citizen demeanor on police attitudes and behaviors

Citizens’ global perceptions of police procedural justice are anchored in broader perceptions of how people treat each other.

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

Police managers with greater self-control expressed more support for organizational justice

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

Police believe their legitimacy is evaluated differently by citizens of high- and low-crime neighborhoods

Yes, but results indicate they think effectively fighting crime is more important

Police perceive the media as hostile toward them, and it increases their fear of false allegations

Yes, it does.

Negative publicity in the previous 6 months was associated with lower self-legitimacy in a sample of sheriff's deputies.

Organizational justice appears to shield police officers from the so-called Ferguson Effect.

The relationship between perceived procedural justice and police legitimacy appears to be quite robust.

Upon surveying 567 sheriff's deputies, we found little support for the Ferguson Effect.