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.
In our data, procedural justice partially mediated the relationship between perceived collective efficacy and trust in the police