Black in Blue: Racial Profiling and Representative Bureaucracy in Policing Revisited

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hong, Sounman
• 署名单位: Yonsei University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/jopart/mux012
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 547-561
• 关键词: motor-vehicle searches; active representation; distributional equity; GENDER

摘要

This study examines the association between the degree to which a police force is ethnically representative of the population it serves and the force's engagement in racial profiling as a policing tactic. Evidence for this study comes from English and Welsh police forces that implemented force-specific recruitment targets for officers from ethnic minority backgrounds between 2000 and 2010. Results suggest that an increase in the proportion of ethnic minorities on a police force is significantly associated with a decrease in the proportion of ethnic minorities that are stopped and searched by that police force. We also examine whether the effects of representative bureaucracy accrue nonlinearly or dynamically. This analysis failed to produce strong evidence for the reform fatigue and diversity fatigue hypotheses. Finally, we demonstrate that active representation has primarily occurred in forces in which racial profiling was intensively used as a policing tactic. These findings have implications for the democratic legitimacy of representative bureaucracy.