... to implement: representative bureaucracy, police-community relations, community characteristics and resource availability. Design/methodology/approach Utilizing the 2016 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) dataset, merged with additional data sources, we conducted multinomial...

... 28 05 2023 03 06 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Asian American Policing Racial diversity Representative bureaucracy Symbolic representation During the past 60 years, the topic of racial diversity has...

... by the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing (2015) , scholarship must continue to monitor its progress. The theory of representative bureaucracy is an appropriate framework to explain why racial diversity matters in law enforcement. Although the theory is not tested within this study, its discussion...

...Tammy Rinehart Kochel Purpose Drawing from representative bureaucracy theory, hiring minority police officers has been a perpetual reform recommendation for improving tense police-community relationships with minority communities since the 1960s. The expectation is that minority officers...

... the representative bureaucracy and minority threat frameworks to assess the impact of the racial/ethnic composition of both police departments and municipalities on disparities in traffic stops. Design/methodology/approach A series of ordinary least squares regression analyses are tested using a sample of more...