Purpose This study aimed to investigate racial/ethnic disparities in emotional distress during
witnessed police stops among a national sample of urban-born youth. Methods A national …

The current work investigates race-based biases in conceptualization of the facial
appearance of police. We employ a reverse correlation procedure to demonstrate that Black …

Prior research has established the effect of race and ethnicity on citizens' perceptions of the
police. This paper serves to build on this body of literature by examining the effect of racial …

Objectives Police use of excessive—even fatal—force is a significant social issue, one at the
symbolic heart of the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement. However, a substantial …

Police departments across the United States are now integrating new visual monitoring
technology (eg unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs or 'drones'], body cameras) into routine …

Although a common maxim among many practitioners argues that police departments
should recruit their way out of the African American confidence race gap by hiring more …

Internal workplace practices and policies in policing are based on a notion of fairness and
equal opportunity. Yet police organizations are frequently criticized for discriminatory …

Public attitudes toward the police (PATP) have become a key area of policing research.
Even a cursory review of the literature shows that few studies pay attention to the …

African Americans often live in crime-ridden communities, where the need to deter crime is
high. They are also likely to be unjustly stopped by law enforcement authorities, arrested …

While extant studies indicate that ethnic minority citizens report relatively low levels of trust in
the police and justice system, it is less clear how that trust can be explained. Thanks to its …