Tucson police officers participating in the study focused on giving people a voice, showing neutrality, being respectful and showing trustworthy motives.
Caitlin Schmidt , Jamie Donnelly Researchers say a recent study that included Tucson police officers could be a step towards improving relationships between law enforcement and the people in the communities they serve.
People are also reading… Cody Telep, an associate professor in ASU's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice conducted the study along with researchers from George Mason University and University of Pennsylvania. He said the study was guided by general concerns expressed by scholars about how police departments' efforts to reduce crime may do that, but they could also damage trust.
The procedural justice group went through 40 hours of training over the course of five days, after which each group of four was assigned a citywide patrol area identified as a hot-spot, or an area in which crime has been identified as higher than others. The other four officers were told to just go out and reduce crime in their 20-block area and weren't given any information about procedural justice, instead receiving a half-day training on hot-spot policing tactics and project data collection.
TPD Assistant Chief Kevin Hall was also surprised about the decline in arrests but said that as TPD does more work that shows the vast majority of violence occurs in a very small number of places, it makes a lot of sense that some of the most effective strategies don’t have to be arrests.
"There were no big changes in police legitimacy or police trust, so doesn't seem to be impacting the perception of legitimacy at all," Telep said."But the hot spots with procedural justice-trained officers perceived less use of excessive force and were less likely to perceive that police were harassing or mistreating people on the block."
When it comes to building trust and a relationship with Tucson’s community, Hall said “it’s nonstop but worth the effort.” He said police need to be accessible and make it as easy as possible for the community to come to them. Telep and others are still in discussion about what to do with the training curriculum they developed for the study, along with what's next for the research.
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