weisburd, lawton, ready, rudes, cave, and nelson presented by breanne cave 1
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Weisburd, Lawton, Ready, Rudes, Cave, and Nelson
Presented by Breanne Cave
Preliminary findings on police legitimacy
from Baltimore Health and Safety
Study
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Procedural justice, legitimacy, cooperation & compliance
Existing research does not focus on micro place
Review
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Does living in a high crime place impact citizens’ perceptions of the police?
Purpose
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Random sample of 454 street segments: 50 cold spots 104 cool spots 125 drug crime hotspots 125 violent crime hotspots 50 combination spots
Total sample of 3770 respondents (about 8 per segment)
Methods
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Sample
Created 9/30/2014 by Breanne CaveHotspots identified by 2012-2013 call for service data obtained from Baltimore Police Department
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Segment demographicsCold spot
Cool spot
Drug crime spot
Violent crime spot
Combination spot F
Average age 45.01 (8.02)
44.64 (6.78)
45.12 (6.57)
43.74 (6.16) 44.47 (6.24) 0.76
Proportion without high school education
0.07 (0.11)
0.19 (0.17)
0.21 (0.16)
0.22 (0.16)
0.26 (0.14) 11.21***
Proportion in poverty 0.07 (0.14)
0.25 (0.21)
0.32 (0.22)
0.37 (0.21)
0.42 (0.21) 25.27***
Proportion male 0.46 (0.19)
0.42 (0.19)
0.43 (0.19)
0.40(0.17)
0.36 (0.18) 2.31t
Proportion African American 0.43 (0.38)
0.70 (0.34)
0.83 (0.25)
0.75 (0.28)
0.86 (0.18) 20.33***
Proportion Latino 0.03 (0.07)
0.06 (0.12)
0.05 (0.11)
0.05 (0.12)
0.04 (0.09) 0.60
tp < .10; *p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001
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Proportion of households that agreeCold spot
Cool spot
Drug crime spot
Violent crime spot
Combination spot F
Police officers treat people fairly 0.80 (0.17)
0.62 (0.22)
0.53 (0.21)
0.56 (0.21)
0.51 (0.21) 18.02***
In general the police care about problems on your block
0.81 (0.16)
0.70 (0.18)
0.58 (0.19)
0.61 (0.19)
0.60 (0.19) 17.54***
In general police officers treat people with respect
0.84 (0.15)
0.70 (0.19)
0.62 (0.21)
0.62 (0.2)
0.59 (0.21) 16.00***
Procedural justice
tp < .10; *p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001
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Proportion of households that agreeCold spot
Cool spot
Drug crime spot
Violent crime spot
Combination spot F
People should obey the law even if it goes against what they think is right
0.83 (0.14)
0.88 (0.11)
0.88 (0.13)
0.87 (0.12)
0.85 (0.13) 2.10t
I always try to follow the law even if I think it is wrong
0.88 (0.12)
0.91 (0.11)
0.90 (0.11)
0.90 (0.11)
0.90 (0.13) 0.77
If a person is doing something and a police officer tells them to stop, they should stop even if they think what they are doing is legal
0.89 (0.12)
0.92 (0.1)
0.91 (0.1)
0.91 (0.11)
0.91 (0.1) 0.73
Disobeying the law is rarely justified 0.79 (0.12)
0.74 (0.18)
0.68 (0.16)
0.68 (0.17)
0.67 (0.14) 7.21***
It is difficult to break the law and keep your self-respect
0.67 (0.16)
0.66 (0.16)
0.59 (0.21)
0.62 (0.2)
0.62 (0.19) 2.34t
Police legitimacy: Obligation to obey the law
tp < .10; *p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001
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Proportion of households that agreeCold spot
Cool spot
Drug crime spot
Violent crime spot
Combination spot F
In general the police do a good job preventing crime
0.78 (0.2)
0.73 (0.18)
0.62 (0.19)
0.62 (0.21)
0.59 (0.19) 12.55***
The police do a good job controlling drug activity
0.72 (0.17)
0.65 (0.2)
0.51 (0.21)
0.54 (0.19)
0.52 (0.19) 15.35***
The police do a good job enforcing traffic laws
0.72 (0.2)
0.75 (0.17)
0.74 (0.15)
0.73 (0.17)
0.72 (0.18) 0.36
Police performance
tp < .10; *p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001
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Willingness to call the police
Proportion of households that agreeCold spot
Cool spot
Drug crime spot
Violent crime spot
Combination spot F
Average calls to the police over the past year
0.86 (0.74)
0.96 (1.57)
1.36 (1.65)
1.13 (1.48)
1.63 (1.73) 2.72*
Proportion who called the police after when victimized (three crimes)
0.51 (0.37)
0.32 (0.38)
0.31 (0.37)
0.36 (0.37)
0.49 (0.38) 3.50**
Proportion who called when home broken into
0.79 (0.4)
0.74 (0.45)
0.80 (0.39)
0.85 (0.35)
0.79 (0.4) 0.28
Proportion who called after violent victimization
0.45 (0.5)
0.50 (0.49)
0.40 (0.48)
0.53 (0.46)
0.59 (0.48) 0.63
Proportion who called after theft outside of home
0.45 (0.41)
0.22 (0.35)
0.23 (0.34)
0.29 (0.36)
0.38 (0.38) 4.10**
tp < .10; *p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001
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Police behavior in places
Implications for crime prevention interventions
Future research
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Breanne CaveCenter for Evidence-Based Crime
cebcp.org
Thank you