Contemporary Issues in American Policing

Richard K. Moule Jr., Bryanna Fox, Richard K. Moule Jr., Bryanna Fox

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781000372700
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Freedom
• Index: Politics & International Relations

American law enforcement, and the public's perception of police, is a topic of growing interest among academics, practitioners, and policymakers. From the 2014 events in Ferguson, MO, and the alleged "Ferguson Effect", to the debate over the impact of body-worn cameras (BWCs), police militarization, use of force, and other practices that may alter the public's view of police legitimacy and procedural justice, there is an increasing need for research addressing these contemporary issues in American policing.

This book presents the latest research on these topics, as well as related topics noted in the Presidential Task Force on 21st Century Policing, such as police use of technology, transparency, oversight, and building trust with the community. The studies contained in this book examine these issues by leveraging empirical data on policing, public perceptions, crime, and diverse research methods, to present high-quality analysis of these timely and relevant topics in today's world.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Crime and Justice.

Index

Note: Bold page numbers refer to tables; italic page numbers refer to figures and page numbers followed by “n” denote endnotes.

• accountability 3, 4, 13, 14
• ACS see American Community Survey (ACS)
• Adams’s equity theory 81
• agency-level OIS 21, 27
• Alpert, Geoff 1
• American Community Survey (ACS) 21–22, 28n3
• American law enforcement 13
• American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 35
• American policing 3
• analysis of variance (ANOVA) 69, 70
• ANOVA see analysis of variance (ANOVA)
• API see Application Programming Interface (API)
• Application Programming Interface (API) 69
• ArcGIS version 10.2.2 67, 68
• ARD see Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD)
• Ariel, B. 80
• armed vs. unarmed citizens 5
• Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) 4, 12
• arrests 25
  • for violent crimes 23, 24, 26
  • for weapons offenses 22–23, 24, 26
• Article 2.139 of Texas Code of Criminal Procedure 6, 14n3
• automated vehicle locator (AVL) 75
• AVL see automated vehicle locator (AVL)

• Bartlett’s test 69
• Bayesian imputation procedures 37, 42n7...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction to Contemporary Issues in American Policing
• State-mandated transparency: a discussion and examination of deadly force data among law enforcement agencies in Texas
• Disparity does not mean bias: making sense of observed racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings with multiple benchmarks
• The effects of procedural justice on civil disobedience: evidence from protesters in three cities
• Public support for police use of SWAT: examining the relevance of legitimacy
• Leveraging wireless broadband to improve police land mobile radio programming: estimating the resource impact
• Behind the lens: police attitudes toward body-worn cameras and organizational justice
• Index