Procedural Justice BOLO

• In Event: Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy

Abstract

It is clear that tides are shifting in
police-community relations in the
United States. With every tragedy
comes a louder call for a new kind
of policing rooted firmly in justice,
impartiality, and collaboration with
the community. The Final Report
of the President’s Task Force for
21st Century Policing, released in
May of 2015, responded to this call
with a series of recommendations
aimed at equipping law enforcement
agencies with the necessary tools and
philosophical orientation to confront
and prevent today’s challenges by
using the many resources that exist
in their communities. Repeated
throughout the report was the term
“procedural justice.” Central to the
report’s vision of a 21st century police
agency, procedural justice provides
a framework and philosophical
orientation that will shape the future
of this profession, and in this BOLO
we hope to shed light on how.

Author

• Melissa Bradley, U.S. Department of Justice