Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive literature review of
empirical studies that have examined perceptions and attitudes of the police across various …

This research updates and expands upon Decker's article “Citizen attitudes toward the
police: a review of past findings and suggestions for future policy” by summarizing the …

This article examines the impact of personal experience on popular assessments of the
quality of police service. Following past research, it addresses the influence of personal and …

Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,
and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest …

Purpose While there has been a sizeable amount of research on identifying the correlates of
citizen satisfaction with police agencies, that research has not been synthesized to identify …

The primary purpose of this study is to assess the relative effects of race and class, at both
individual and neighborhood levels, on public satisfaction with police. Using hierarchical …

Studies considering perceptions of the police have traditionally focused on very broad
outcome measures (eg, global views of the police). In an era of community policing, it is …

Policing in America, Ninth Edition, provides a thorough analysis of the key issues in policing
today, and offers an issues-oriented discussion focusing on critical concerns such as …

The purpose of this study was to extend the current knowledge of public attitudes toward the
police. Independent variables derived from three models, the demographic, the …

This study extends the dominant Black–White paradigm in assessing public perceptions of
the police by including Hispanic and Asian Americans. Relying on a large random sample of …