How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3316666 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dotan Haim (0000-0003-4132-7766), Matthew Nanes (0000-0002-7006-5040), Nico Ravanilla (0000-0001-5353-4231) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000305542400145x |
| OpenAlex | W4408375948 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 71 |
In contrast to the expansive work on how community policing affects citizens' attitudes toward police, existing research says little about how community policing affects officers' attitudes toward citizens. We examine officer-facing outcomes using an experiment in the Philippines, in which a random subset of a province's 705 officers were assigned to intensive community policing activities for seven months. Treatment officers saw improved understanding of citizen concerns, but did not develop greater empathy or trust toward civilians, nor an increased sense of accountability for citizen-facing misconduct. We build from the experiment to develop an inductive theory of bureaucrat-citizen contact, relying on qualitative observations and exploratory analyses of heterogeneous effects. We propose that contact with citizens is only likely to improve attitudes among frontline bureaucrats who are not ex-ante embedded in their communities. Moreover, contact may have negative effects when it reveals threats to bureaucrats' personal safety
Affect (linguistics · Community policing · Criminology · Political science · Sociology · Test (biology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
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| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
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