Perceptions of abusive police practices in a U.S.-Mexico border community |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Plastic Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK;2. Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value & Experience (PROVE) Centre, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women''s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA;3. Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;4. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, the Netherlands;5. Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;6. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;7. Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK;1. School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University, 411 N. Central Ave, Suite 633, Phoenix, AZ 85004, United States;2. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada;3. University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, United States |
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| Abstract: | Although research has examined relations between minorities and the police, there is a paucity or recent or systematic evidence concerning abusive police practices. This investigation contributes to our knowledge of the issue by comparing perceptions of abusive police practices held by Anglos and Hispanics in a U.S.-Mexico border community. The study was based on a telephone/personal interview survey designed to yield a representative sample of the adult population of El Paso, Texas, a city which ranks among the poorest in the U.S. A four-item abusive police practices index was analyzed using OLS multiple regression. The findings show that the young, males, Hispanics and those residing in the barrio locale were more likely to report having seen abusive police practives, after controlling for general beliefs about police brutality and for various types of contact with the police. |
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