Spatially Diverse Policing: An Examination of Police Typologies across Space and Time

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Abstract

Policing in the United States has experienced immense change over the course of the past two decades. From pressures to modernize, to militarize, to restore public-police relations, many departments across the country have begun to adjust their practices in order to change their policing philosophies. As a result of these changes, departments have effectively begun to transform themselves into new ‘types’ of departments. With that being said, little is known about these changes in typologies. Thus, the present study uses longitudinal data from multiple different sources in order to examine the spatial distribution of different types of police departments (e.g., high/low community policing; high/low militancy; etc.) across the United States over time. Our results reveal a number of significant findings regarding the spatial and temporal distributions of police typologies.

Authors

• Rylan Simpson, University of California, Irvine

• John R. Hipp, University of California, Irvine