| Abstract: | Assessed police responsiveness using a technique that identified positive and negative attitudes of policemen toward inner-city residents. Ss were 30 policemen who scored most negatively and 32 who scored most positively on a 4-scale questionnaire (Policemen's View of Citizens' Support, General Faith in People, Police Fear of Citizens or Police Defensive Posture, and Police Stereotype of Poor People). Analysis of some demographic characteristics of the most positive (responsive) and most negative (nonresponsive) groups revealed that race was the most important distinguishing variable between them. Evaluations of the behavior of these officers by their immediate superiors supported the assumption that police in the positive group are rated higher than those in the negative group. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
