...Sunguook Lee; Jaidyn Barrera Purpose This study examines trust in police in the South Korean context. We test whether effective policing, alignment of police-community norms or political ideologies impact our trust in police. Design/methodology/approach The study utilizes convenience sampling...

... that respondents' political ideology plays in the agreement of 13 aspects of policing services, their demeanor and decorum. Findings Attitudes toward policing interactions are slightly positive. Conservatives steadfastly hold positive attitudes about police. Liberals vacillate from negative to positive...

... interpretations by different groups (Lawrence, 2000). Conservatives are more consistently supportive of reasonable and excessive force by police than liberals, demonstrating a deeply divided stance on police use of force by political ideology (Ekins, 2016 ; Johnson and Kuhns, 2009 ; Silver and Pickett, 2015...