TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Will more Black cops matter? Officer race and police-involved homicides of Black citizens
JO  - Public administration review
A1  - Nicholson-Crotty, Sean
A1  - Nicholson-Crotty, Jill
A1  - Fernandez, Sergio
SP  - 206
EP  - 216
VL  - 77
IS  - 2
N2  - In response to police-involved homicides of black citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere, some have suggested that more black police officers could reduce the number of these events. The authors offer an empirical test of this assertion. The literature offers conflicting expectations: some studies suggest that increased representation reduces discrimination, while others suggest that it increases discrimination. The authors reconcile these perspectives using the concept of critical mass, which leads to the expectation that an increase in black officers will reduce the number of black citizens killed in encounters with police, but only once the proportion of black officers is sufficiently large. We test this expectation in analyses of recently compiled data on police-involved homicides in 2014 and 2015 in large U.S. cities.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0033-3352
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/puar.12734
ID  - ref1
ER  -