Leadership in Law Enforcement Podcast - Season 2 Ep. 8

In this episode, I have a conversation with Chief Aaron Fuller of the Knoxville, Iowa Police Department. Topics discussed include:

• How I got into academia
• Procedural justice
• Police legitimacy
• Organizational justice
• The “Ferguson Effect”
• The 2020 homicide spike
• Pretext stops
• How citizen demeanor influences officer decision-making
• Police shootings

Articles discussed include:

• Police Understanding of the Foundations of Their Legitimacy in the Eyes of the Public: The Case of Commanding Officers in the Israel National Police
• In the eye of the beholder: Exploring the dialogic approach to police legitimacy
• Police perceptions of their external legitimacy in high and low crime areas of the community
• Do the police believe that legitimacy promotes cooperation from the public?
• Sensitivity to the Ferguson Effect: The role of managerial organizational justice
• The alleged “Ferguson Effect” and police willingness to engage in community partnership
• Understanding Denver’s devastating rise in violent crime in 2020
• Taking cops out of traffic stops: Would it make a difference? North Carolina examples offer a clue
• Demeanor or crime? Why “hostile” citizens are more likely to be arrested
• On the Meaning and Measurement of Suspects’ Demeanor Toward the Police: A Comment on “Demeanor and Arrest”
• Compliance, noncompliance, and the in-between: causal effects of civilian demeanor on police officers’ cognitions and emotions
• Factors associated with police shooting mortality: A focus on race and a plea for more comprehensive data
• Gun victimization in the line of duty: Fatal and nonfatal firearm assaults on police officers in the United States, 2014-2019