Police Attitudes and Performance
The Impact of Residency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19331839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis C Smith (Graduate School of Public Administration New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 317-334 |
| Publication date | 1980-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0816 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/107808748001500304 |
| OpenAlex | W1999037300 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 4 |
Residency laws are a recurrent controversy in local government. While many of the argu ments are economic, proponents of residency requirements also expect resident employees to have more positive attitudes and greater dedication toward the jurisdiction. In this study of residency, police performance, and officer attitudes, which uses data from a com parative study of departments in the St. Louis metropolitan area, some evidence of a re lationship between residency and performance (measured with citizen survey and official crime and clearance data) is found. But the findings show little support for the expected attitudinal link between residency and performance. The proportion of an officer's col leagues who live in the jurisdiction is more closely related to positive attitudes than is the officer's own residency status. Policy implications are considered
Government (linguistics) · Jurisdiction · Medical education · Metropolitan area · Officer · Political science · Public relations · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Law · Medicine · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Regulation and Compliance Studies
Self-Help and Black Firearm Crime
Municipal residency laws and local public budgets
Do Hospital Leaders Live in the Communities They Serve? A Comparative Analysis
Community Accountability, Minority Threat, and Police Brutality
Residency Blues
Social segregation, inter-group contact, and discriminatory policing
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 2025 (40) |
| Highly cited | No |