The Double-Edged Sword of Policing: The Impact of Policing Consequences on Attitudes

• In Event: Policing, Accountability, and Responsiveness

Brief Overview

Black Americans face policing's double-edged sword: protective benefits and coercive costs. Our survey experiment finds coercive costs dominate as arrest information reduces support while homicide information fails to increase it.

Author

• Bryant James Moy, New York University