TY - JOUR
T1 - Police brutality and public perceptions of racial discrimination
T2 - A tale of two beatings
AU - Sigelman, Lee
AU - Welch, Susan
AU - Bledsoe, Timothy
AU - Combs, Michael
PY - 1997/12
Y1 - 1997/12
N2 - This study uses data from a national and a local opinion survey that were underway when highly publicized police beatings of African American citizens occurred in two American cities - the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles and the killing of Malice Green in Detroit - to probe the impact of these dramatic events on public perceptions of racial discrimination. The incidents appear to have had their greatest effect on specific perceptions of the way local police treat blacks, and markedly less effect on broader perceptions of the extent of discrimination against them.
AB - This study uses data from a national and a local opinion survey that were underway when highly publicized police beatings of African American citizens occurred in two American cities - the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles and the killing of Malice Green in Detroit - to probe the impact of these dramatic events on public perceptions of racial discrimination. The incidents appear to have had their greatest effect on specific perceptions of the way local police treat blacks, and markedly less effect on broader perceptions of the extent of discrimination against them.
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U2 - 10.1177/106591299705000403
DO - 10.1177/106591299705000403
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031283719
SN - 1065-9129
VL - 50
SP - 777
EP - 791
JO - Political Research Quarterly
JF - Political Research Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -