Race and Perceptions of Police Misconduct

By Ronald Weitzer, S. Tuch. 2004

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Concern About Crime and Confidence in the Police (2009, background): “The same is true for those who believe that crime is a serious problem in their neighborhood (Weitzer & Tuch, 2004a, 2004b; Weitzer, Tuch, & Skogan, 2008) and who report that a violent crime occurred in their neighborhood in the past year (Weitzer & Tuch, 2002).”
Race, Class or Neighborhood Context: Which Matters More in Measuring Satisfaction with Police? (2009, background): “Recently interest in studying the impact of neighborhood contexts on residents’ perceptions of police has emerged (e.g., Cao et al., 1996; Dunham & Alpert, 1988; Reisig & Parks, 2000, 2003; Sampson & Jeglum-Bartusch, 1998; Weitzer, 1999, 2000; Weitzer & Tuch, 2004a, 2005a, 2005b).”
Legitimacy, Trust, Social Capital, and Policing Styles (2008, background): “The public expects officers to behave like professional officers, which includes performing their duties “within a set of fair, public, and accountable guidelines” (Seron et al., 2004, p. 666; also see Weitzer & Tuch, 2004; see Deakin, 1988 for a detailed discussion of police professionalism).”
Vicarious racism: a qualitative analysis of experiences with secondhand racism in graduate education (2016, background): “…racism manifests in complex ways, both as a stressor as well as a way of coping with racism (Alvarez et al., 2006; Browne Graves, 1999; Brunson, 2007; Dominguez et al., 2008; Feagin & Sikes, 1994; Glover, 2009; Harrell, 2000; Jackson et al., 2001; Nuru-Jeter et al., 2009; Weitzer & Tuch, 2004).”
Determinants of Public Satisfaction with the Police (2005, background): “…certain situational (i.e., contact and experience) and structural (i.e., neighborhood, media, policing) variables also shape citizens’ overall satisfaction with police, just as they do with regard to other attitudes toward policing, which we have examined elsewhere (Weitzer & Tuch, 2004a, 2004b).”
Striking Out: Race and Support for Police Use of Force (2009, background): “…2006; Henderson, Cullen, Cao, Browning, & Kopache, 1997; Weitzer & Tuch, 2005, 2006; Wortley, Hagan, & Macmillan, 1997), to have been hassled by police (Browning, Cullen, Cao, Kopache, & Stevenson, 1994) and to have personally or vicariously experienced police abuse (Weitzer & Tuch, 2004, 2006).”
The Role of Race/Ethnicity and Race Relations on Public Opinion Related to the Treatment of Blacks by the Police (2009, background): “…2005), gender (Chermak, McGarrell, & Gruenwald, 2006; Decker, 1981; Weitzer & Tuch, 1999, 2004, 2005), income (Decker, 1981; Reitzel et al., 2004; Weitzer & Tuch, 1999, 2004, 2005), educational level (Decker, 1981; Weitzer & Tuch, 1999, 2004, 2005), age (Decker, 1981; Schuck, Rosenbaum, &…”
The Influence of Race/Ethnicity, Social Class, and Neighborhood Context on Residents' Attitudes Toward the Police (2008, unknown): “…more critical of the criminal justice system than those expressed by Whites and Asian-Americans (see Brunson, 2007; Carr, Napolitano, & Keating, 2007; Hagan & Albonetti, 1982; Schafer, Huebner, & Bynum, 2003; Walker, Spohn & DeLone, 2000; Weitzer & Tuch, 2004; Wortley, Hagan & Macmillan, 1997).”
A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing (2017, background): “While distinct concepts, racial bias and use of force by police are often linked in the popular media when discussing police misconduct, and minority communities are most likely to complain of police maltreatment (Weitzer and Tuch, 2004).”
Trust in the Police (2015, background): “Variation in neighborhood characteristics also matters with respect to attitudes toward the police (see, for example, Brunson & Gau, 2011; Decker, 1981; Weitzer, 1999; Weitzer & Tuch, 2004) and the law more generally (see, for example, Kirk & Matsuda, 2011).”
Across the thin blue line: police officers and racial bias in the decision to shoot. (2007, background): “Weitzer and Tuch (2004) present evidence that members of ethnic minorities often feel that they are mistreated by the police, even after statistically controlling for factors like personal and vicarious experiences with the law, exposure to the media, and neighborhood disadvantage (see also Sunshin”
Race and Perceptions of Police: Experimental Results on the Impact of Procedural (In)Justice (2017, unknown): “For instance, in comparison to whites, African Americans perceive police use of force as more common (Weitzer, 2002), as more of a problem (Huang & Vaughn, 1996), and report greater personal and vicarious experiences of police abuse (Weitzer & Tuch, 2004, 2006).”
The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students* (2020, background): “Experiences with aggressive policing have been linked to unfavorable attitudes towards law enforcement, particularly among racial minorities, whose lifetime odds of being killed by police are as high as one in a thousand (Skolnick and Fyfe, 1993; Weitzer and Tuch, 2004; Brunson and Miller, 2005).”
Contact and confidence: revisiting the impact of public encounters with the police (2009, background): “So why would positively received encounters with the police fail to have a knock-on positive effect on public attitudes towards the effectiveness of the police? Skogan ( 2006 ) points to Weitzer and Tuch's ( 2004 ) twin suggestions that, in their dealings with the police, people may either dismiss g”