Officer-Involved Killings and the Repression of Protest

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ID6405262
AuthorsTraci Burch (0000-0002-4213-2250, American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume59
Issue2
Pages580-610
Publication date2023-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/10780874221087220
OpenAlexW4220653681
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited46

This article explores the likelihood that officer-involved killings affect protest. Analyzing respondents to the Collaborative Multiracial Political Survey (CMPS) reveals no increases in protest activity between treatment groups exposed to officer-involved killings in their local area prior to participating in the survey and control groups who were exposed to officer-involved killings after survey participation overall. In fact, local exposure to Black victims appears to repress protest, but only among young Black respondents. This effect depends on the characteristics of the victim and the incident, as killings of low threat Black victims do not seem to repress protest

Affect (linguistics · Criminology · Officer · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Survey data collection · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Public Administration · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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