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    The Militarization of Police's Eyes, Ears, and Hands: The 1033 Department of Defense Program and Police Safety Outcomes

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    Carriere, Kevin Robert
    Advisor
    Encinosa, William
    Abstract
    The current state of race relations in Baltimore, Ferguson, and New York have brought to light the issues of police legitimacy and trust with police officers and the citizens they serve to protect. The results of these conflicts have brought to light the militarization of local police, where officers are being provided with unused equipment from the government’s war chest. But why are these police being heavily armed? Is there truly a threat? Using data on police equipment purchases provided by NPR and assaults on police officers provided by the FBI, this investigation analyzes the effects of purchases on the count of assaults on police officers. Negative binomial regressions on state-month level data shows that the compounded summation of surveillance purchases have a negative, but substantively insignificant, effect on assaults across both linear and quadratic models, while military grade weapons purchases exhibit a significantly positive increase on the risk ratio of assaults under a quadratic model. Results are discussed in light of psychology research on procedural justice and trust of law enforcement, and implications for the policy arena are developed, recommending a decrease in the program’s use in regards to weapon-based purchases. Future work continuing this analysis with stronger controls, more data points, and other datasets are considered.
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    M.P.P.
    Permanent Link
    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1040783
    Date Published
    2016
    Subject
    LEOKA; LESO; negative binomial regression; police officer assaults; procedural justice; Public policy; Psychology; Public policy; Psychology;
    Type
    thesis
    Embargo Lift Date
    2018-05-27
    Publisher
    Georgetown University
    Extent
    40 leaves
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    • Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Public Policy
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