Policing in Black and White: Ethnic Group Differences in Trust and Confidence in the Police

By Tom Tyler. 2005

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Promoting trust in police: findings from a randomised experimental field trial of procedural justice policing (2014, neutral): “Tyler (2005) used survey data from 1,653 New Yorkers from various ethnic backgrounds (Whites, African Americans and Hispanics) to show that trust and confidence in police was a major predictor of the publics’ willingness to cooperate with police in crime fighting efforts, across all ethnic groups…”
Examining macro-level impacts on procedural justice and police legitimacy (2012, result): “, Reisig & Parks, 2000) but does fall in line with studies showing the strong impact of demographics on attitudes toward police (e.g., Scaglion & Condon, 1980; Skogan, 2005; Tyler, 2005).”
Race, Class or Neighborhood Context: Which Matters More in Measuring Satisfaction with Police? (2009, result): “, response time) in shaping citizens’ attitudes toward police (Frank, Smith, & Novak, 2005; Tyler, 2005).”
The Salience of Social Contextual Factors in Appraisals of Police Interactions with Citizens: A Randomized Factorial Experiment (2014, background): “Previous research on a variety of law enforcement issues establishes that legal institutions gain and preserve legitimacy through adherence to procedural fairness norms (Tyler 2003, 2005).”
Procedural justice and police legitimacy: a systematic review of the research evidence (2013, background): “For example, in a survey of Muslim-Americans by Tyler et al. (2010: 385), the procedural justice model of legitimacy under conditions of ‘anti-terror policing’ was important for gaining people’s willingness to cooperate with police (see also Tyler 2005).”
Why does the public cooperate with law enforcement? The influence of the purposes and targets of policing. (2011, background): “Past studies find that non-minority groups base judgments of procedural justice on both how their ethnic cohort is treated and on how police treat other racial and ethnic groups (Tyler, 2005; Tyler and Wakslak, 2004).”
Explaining officer compliance: The importance of procedural justice and trust inside a police organization (2015, methodology): “With regards to the consequences of trust, Tyler argues that trust in the police “shapes public cooperation”, increases citizens’ “deference to the directives of the police”, and “motivates compliance with the law” (Tyler, 2005: 325, 327, 333).”
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown on trust, attitudes toward government, and well-being. (2020, background): “Participants were asked about their trust in the police, general police engagement (i.e., intentions to report suspicious activity; Tyler, 2005), trust in politicians, trust in science (Hartman et al.”
The Construct Validity and Refinement of Process-Based Policing Measures (2007, methodology): “…and Tyler (2003b, pp. 532-534) observed that the effect of procedural justice on legitimacy was much stronger than that of distributive fairness (β = .20; also see Sunshine & Tyler, 2003a; Tyler, 2003, pp. 295-296; Tyler, 2005, pp. 333-336; Tyler & Huo, 2002, p. 77; Tyler & Wakslak, 2004, p. 267).”
Procedural justice in contacts with the police: testing a relational model of authority in a mixed methods study (2011, neutral): “…nd ed so le ly fo r t he p er so na l u se o f t he in di vi du al u se r a nd is n ot to b e di ss em in at ed b ro ad ly . authority in citizen–police interactions (Hinds & Murphy, 2007; Murphy, 2009; Sunshine & Tyler, 2003a & b; Tyler, 2001, 2005, 2006; Tyler & Huo, 2002; Tyler & Wakslak, 2004).”