Studies in Crime and Law Enforcement in Major Metropolitan Areas: Patterns of behavior in police and citizen transactions, by D. J. Black and A. J. Reiss, Jr. Career orientations, job satisfaction, and the assessment of law enforcement problems by police officers
註釋 v. 2. Section I. This report looks at the determination of the extent to which certain factors influence the behavior of police officers and citizens toward one another. Factors related to the status and role of the citizen and the officer, their predispositions and behavior in encounters, the type of mobilization situation, and the department's policies and system of command and control were considered. Encounters in Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., were observed for several weeks. The findings for both police-suspect and police-citizen encounters in terms of participant's race, social class, behavior, exhibited prejudice and demeanor are presented. Although officers maintained highly prejudicial attitudes towards blacks, they were not exhibited in encounters, but did affect the nature, formal or personal of the encounter. Policemen were constrained in acting out their feelings. -- 