Procedural Justice in Citizens’ Contacts with the Police
We are exploiting survey data collected as part of an effort to assess police complaint review processes, adding data on arrests over a four-year follow-up period. Between September 2001 and September 2004, we interviewed 892 people who had been arrested by police in one northeastern city. These interviews were part of a larger survey effort, which was designed to examine the experiences of people who had contact with the police. We sampled from three subpopulations — people who called for service, people who were arrested, and people who were field stopped — biweekly, contacting them generally within six to eight weeks of their encounter with police. This examination of procedural justice builds principally on the subset of respondents who had been arrested.
