Journal Entry 8- Public Attitude 2- Asymmetry in the Impact of encounters with police
• This article examines the impact of personal experience on popular assessments of the quality of police service
• The personal attributes of individuals are important because they are directly related to the extent, to which people are stopped by police or call them for assistance, and often they are linked to how deferentially or harshly they are dealt with when they do come into contact with the police.
• African Americans are more skeptical in their views of the police and more often report negative contacts and even mistreatment by them. They are also disproportionately stopped by the police
• AA’s are more likely than whites to be victimized and subsequently report crimes to the police. Racial minorities are more likely to believe that police had no legitimate reason for stopping them
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Procedural Justice and Order maintenance policing: A study of inner- city young men’s perceptions of police legitimacy
• There is tension between the core tenets of procedural justice and those of order maintenance policing
• Research has shown that citizens’ perceptions of procedural justice influence their beliefs about police legitimacy, yet at the same time, some order maintenance policing efforts stress frequent stops of vehicles and persons for suspected disorderly behavior.
• Citizens stopped for low level offenses may view such stops as a form of harassment, as they may not believe they were doing anything to warrant police scrutiny.
• The word “aggressive” is used here to describe the frequency of stop-and-frisks and other order maintenance activities, not the manner in which they are conducted.
• Stop-and-frisks—can harm police–citizen relations. Stop-and-frisks are commonly used by police departments that seek to reduce social