Cop Dramas and Attitudes About Policing in the U.S.

• In Event: Media Portrayals of Social Groups and Effects

Brief Overview

We use a series of datasets---proprietary television data, repeated cross-sectional surveys, and survey experiments---to analyze the relationship between the consumption of dramas about policing (ie NCIS) and attitudes toward the police.

Authors

• Eunji Kim, Vanderbilt University

• Tyler Thomas Reny, Claremont Graduate University