Did George Floyd's murder shape the public's felt obligation to obey the police?

Autor:	Cross AR; School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University., Tom KE; School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University., Wallace D; School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University., Trinkner R; School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University., Fine AD; School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Law and human behavior [Law Hum Behav] 2023 Aug; Vol. 47 (4), pp. 510-525. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 26.
DOI:	10.1037/lhb0000536
Abstrakt:	Objective: Our goal in the present study was to use longitudinal data to assess how normative (i.e., consensually motivated) and instrumental (i.e., coercively motivated) obligation to obey police changed after police murdered George Floyd and whether these changes differed by political ideology. Hypotheses: Using procedural justice theory, we hypothesized that after Floyd's murder, participants would feel less normatively obligated and more instrumentally obligated to obey police. We also hypothesized that these trends would be stronger for liberal-leaning than conservative-leaning participants. Method: Adults ( N = 645) were recruited through Prolific from four politically diverse U.S. states. Participants reported their normative and instrumental obligation across three waves of data collection, each separated by 3 weeks. The first two waves were collected prior to the Floyd's murder, and the third was collected after. Results: Hierarchical linear models indicated that although normative obligation remained stable before Floyd's murder, it declined after Floyd's murder ( b = -0.19, 95% CI [-0.24, -0.14], p < .001). In contrast, coercive obligation to obey increased consistently across all three waves. Liberal-leaning participants drove most of the effects. Conclusions: For researchers, these findings help strengthen our understanding of procedural justice theory by differentiating normative and instrumental obligation and by distinguishing differences by political ideology within the context of a historic police-brutality event. For policymakers and law enforcement, our research suggests that police brutality may undermine the public's normative felt obligation to obey the police, which would be problematic for police reformation efforts grounded in governing by mutual consent versus by fear and coercion. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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