ISPS Policy brief

How to Enhance Police Legitimacy and Reduce Gun Violence in Poor, Minority Communities

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Author
  • Michael Sierra-Arévalo
Published
October 20, 2014
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Geographic Areas
Document Control Number(s)
  • ISPS 14-032
Citation

Sierra-Arévalo, Michael (2014). How to Enhance Police Legitimacy and Reduce Gun Violence in Poor, Minority Communities. Scholars Strategy Network. Retrieved from www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org October 2014.

Abstract

Damaging relationships between disadvantaged communities and the police are not inevitable. Studies of policing and the procedures used in the justice system find that police gain legitimacy when their interactions with community members are perceived as fair.

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