RAPID: The Impact of Being Policed Under Threat

该项目推进了环境压力源如何影响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。为此，它调查了与重警社区执法相关的制度、情境和心理因素。此外，该项目提供了城市地区社区成员之间的种族比较，以更好地了解警务行为的不同影响。这个项目的一个潜在好处是有助于解释先前记录的社区健康和工作表现方面的种族差异。研究结果将引起人们对警察-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人采取行动支持更有效的警察-社区伙伴关系的紧迫性，以造福劳动力和社会。主要目的是：调查(1)工作不安全感、媒体关注、改革努力和执法部门对“种族主义”刻板印象的意识如何影响黑人社区的警务模式；(2)警务行为模式如何反过来影响黑人社区的心理生理健康、福祉和歧视经历；(3)不良社区结果溢出到文职工作领域如何影响黑人员工的工作绩效。及时的数据收集将使该项目能够产生：(1)对外部压力源对警务和社区结果的影响的多层次理解，(2)理解警察-社区联合经验的框架，以及(3)对警务和组织政策的建议，使警察和社区成员的联合经验保持一致。该项目将采用混合方法，包括对政府官员的专题访谈、自我报告的警察和社区数据、对公共数据的二次分析以及从互联网上收集的警察行为的二次描述。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方面的理论提供信息。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.