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Police–Community Relations in a Majority-Black CityGeorge Washington University, Washington, DC, weitzer{at}gwu.edu
George Washington University, Washington, DC
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Minority racial and ethnic groups often view themselves as targets of abusive treatment at the hands of the police. Although racial variation in public assessments of the police in the United States has been amply documented in past research, less research has explored the sources of these differences at the intersection of demographic, interactional, and ecological levels. This article examines the role of each factor in shaping citizens' perceptions of police misconduct, racial differences in these perceptions, and the reasons underlying them. The locus of the study is also important. Most research on police–community relations has been conducted in cities whose populations and police departments are majority White in composition, despite the growing number of minority-White cities. The present study draws on data from residents of a majority-Black city with a majority-Black police department: Washington, DC. The findings contribute to our understanding of policing in such underresearched cities.
Key Words: police misconduct • race • public opinion
This version was published on November
1, 2008 Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Vol. 45, No. 4,
398-428 (2008) This article has been cited by other articles:
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