The power of protest on policing: Black Lives Matter protest and civilian evaluation of the police

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wright, James E., II; Gaozhao, Dongfang; Dukes, Kenneth; Templeton, Da'Shay
• 署名单位: State University System of Florida; Florida State University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13498
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 130-143
• 关键词: critical race theory; citizen satisfaction; PUBLIC-PARTICIPATION; service quality; GOVERNMENT; trust; INFORMATION; perceptions; bureaucracy; ELECTIONS

摘要

In 2020, police brutality against Black Americans catalyzed Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests across all 50 states. Though BLM protests continue to permeate society, few scholars explore how these protests change Americans' perceptions of the police. To investigate this phenomenon more meticulously, we administered an online survey experiment-oversampling Black American participants-to measure how protest culture, specifically BLM protests, influences civilians' perceptions of the police. Our survey found that (1) Black American participants have a lower evaluation of police performance, but a higher evaluation of the BLM Movement than White American participants; (2) the presence of a general protest negatively impacts peoples' perception of safety, police trustworthiness, and police performance; and (3) a BLM protest casts a stronger effect on White American participants than on Black American participants. Using Critical Race Theory and QuantCrit these findings suggest that the visibility of BLM protests changes both Black and White perceptions of the police to varying degrees.