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Racial/Ethnic Connection with Confidence in the Police: Equal Treatment Matters

Ren, Ling, Luo, Fei, Nielson, Kyler·2022·Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
DOI 10.3138/cjccj.2021-0050
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Recent discussions on confidence in the police by race/ethnicity call for shifting the research focus from whether race/ethnicity matters to why and how it matters. The purpose of this article is to decipher the mediating role of the quality of police treatment in a nuanced study of racial impact on confidence in the police. Data were collected from a two-wave random-sample telephone survey of approximately 2400 residents in Houston, TX. The results confirm the expected effect of race/ethnicity on confidence in the police, net of neighborhood contexts and respondents’ demographics. More importantly, we found that the three measures tapping into the quality of police treatment during police–resident encounters partially mediate the race/ethnicity effect on views of police. Perceived equal treatment emerged as having the strongest effect. When the combined race/ethnicity sample was divided into three racial/ethnic subsamples, perceived equal treatment exerted the largest effects on confidence in the police both within and across the groups. Its effect is most pronounced for the Black subsample. Implications for future research and policy are discussed.

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  • Trust between the citizenry and police department was perceived to be low.

    “Trust between the citizenry and police department was perceived to be low (see Ren et al. [2022] for evidence from Houston).”

    From Diverting 911 calls: Lessons from early adopting urban jurisdictions (2024) · cites this paper as Ren et al. [2022]

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Authors
Ren, L., Luo, F., & Nielson, K.
Affiliations
  • Sam Houston State University (US)
  • Texas A&M International University (US)
ORCID
Venue
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Published
2022-07-01
Volume
64
Issue
3
Pages
49-70
ISSN
  • 1707-7753 (ISSN-L)
  • 1911-0219
DOI
10.3138/cjccj.2021-0050
OpenAlex
W4296510583
Cited by
9
References
46
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3
FWCI
5.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale (publishedVersion)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Keywords
public trust in police, race and ethnicity, mediation, Black residents, Houston

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