Motivating to Serve: Pro-Social Messaging and Representative Bureaucracy in Police Recruitment

• In Event: From Police Violence to Police Reform: Policing, Recruitment, and Public Trust in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

This field study uses a randomized experiment to test how pro-social and service-oriented recruitment messages affect perceptions of policing and applicant diversity in Tucson Police Department, a large municipal department.

Authors

• Jenna Layla Aldulaimi, Tucson Police Department

• Aeric Koerner, Tucson Police Department

• Derrick Goodrich, Tucson Police Department

• Tyler Elizabeth Thorp, Tucson Police Department

• Seung-Ho An, University of Arizona