Media Influence on Citizen Attitudes Toward Police Effectiveness

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Media and public perceptions of the police: examining the impact of race and personal experience (2011, background): “One-third of the top 40 shows in the 2004–2005 television season were crime procedurals (Phillips and Frost 2010 ) and ‘crime dramas involving police officers are a staple of mainstream television programming’ (Dowler 2002 , p.”
The Impact of Negative Publicity on Police Self-legitimacy (2017, background): “The majority of research concerned with policing and the media has focused on how negative press affects citizens’ attitudes toward the police (Chermak, McGarrell, & Gruenewald, 2006; Dowler, 2002; Lawrence, 2000; Weitzer & Tuch, 2005).”
Investigating the Effects of Media Consumption on Attitudes Toward Police Legitimacy (2018, background): “…of significant findings was somewhat unexpected, a closer inspection of previous research in this domain illustrates that our lack of significant findings regarding media consumption and attitudes about policing is somewhat common (see Callanan and Rosenberger 2011; Dowler 2002; Roche et al. 2016).”