RAPID: The Impact of Being Policed Under Threat

该项目推进了关于环境压力如何塑造警察行为的科学知识，并反过来间接影响社区成员的集体生活和工作成果。要做到这一点，它调查的机构，情境和心理因素，与执法在严重的警察社区。此外，该项目还提供了城市社区成员之间的种族-民族比较，以更好地了解警务行为的差异影响。这个项目的一个潜在好处是有助于解释以前记录的社区健康和工作表现的种族差异。结果将引起人们对警察与社区关系对这些社区内的公共和私人组织的溢出效应的关注，这可能会增加组织领导者采取行动支持更有效的警察与社区伙伴关系的紧迫性，以造福劳动力和社会。 主要目标是：调查（1）如何工作不安全，媒体的关注，改革的努力，以及执法中的“种族主义”刻板印象的意识形成警察在黑人社区的模式;（2）如何警务行为的模式，反过来，影响心理生理健康，福祉，和黑人社区内的歧视经验;以及，（3）不利的社区结果如何溢出到民用工作领域，影响黑人员工的工作场所绩效。及时的数据收集将使该项目能够产生：（1）多层次地了解外部压力对警务和社区成果的影响，（2）了解警官-社区联合经验的框架，以及（3）对警务和组织政策提出建议，使警官和社区成员的联合经验保持一致。该项目采用混合方法，将对公职人员进行专题访谈，自我报告警察和社区数据，对公共数据进行二次分析，并从互联网上收集警务行为的二次记录。研究结果将为压力、身份、工作生活界面、歧视经历和组织支持等理论提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project advances scientific knowledge of how contextual stressors shape police behavior and, in turn, indirectly affect community members’ collective life and work outcomes. To do so, it investigates institutional, situational, and psychological factors that are associated with law enforcement in heavily policed communities. Moreover, this project provides racioethnic comparisons among members of urban area communities to better understand the differential impact of policing behaviors. A potential benefit of this project would be to help account for previously documented racial differences in community health and job performance. Results will draw attention to the spillover effects of police-community relations to public and private organizations embedded within these communities, potentially increasing the urgency of organizational leaders to take action to support more effective police-community partnerships for the good of the labor force and society. The primary aims are to: investigate (1) how job insecurity, media attention, reform efforts, and consciousness of the “racist” stereotype among law enforcement shape patterns of policing in Black communities; (2) how patterns of policing behavior, in turn, impact psychophysiological health, well-being, and experiences of discrimination within Black communities; and, (3) how adverse community outcomes spillover to the civilian work domain to affect Black employees’ workplace performance. Timely data collection will allow this project to produce: (1) a multi-level understanding of the impact of external stressors on policing and community outcomes, (2) a framework for understanding the joint officer-community experience, and (3) recommendations for policing and organizational policy that align the joint experiences of officers and community members. Using a mixed-method approach, the project will incorporate thematic interviews of public officials, self-report police and community data, secondary analysis of public data, and secondary accounts of policing behavior scraped from the internet. Findings will inform theories on stress, identity, the work-life interface, experiences of discrimination, and organizational support.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.