Examining the effects of the killing of George Floyd by police in the United States on attitudes of Black Londoners: a replication

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-03-02 DOI:10.1080/15614263.2023.2185241

Amy E. Nivette, Christof Nägel, E. Gilbert

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Abstract

ABSTRACT High-profile incidents of police misconduct can have serious consequences for public trust in the police. A recent study in the British Journal of Political Science found that Eric Garner’s death in NYC lead to more negative attitudes towards the police in London among Black residents compared to White and Asian residents. The current study aimed to replicate this transnational effect by assessing the impact of George Floyd’s death on Londoners’ perceptions of police. Using the same data and methodological approach, we did not replicate the immediate effect on Black Londoners’ attitudes. We did find that attitudes across ethnic groups became more negative when using a wider temporal bandwidth. However, we discovered violations to the excludability assumption, meaning we cannot be certain that the effect is solely due to the murder of George Floyd, or at least partly due to different dynamics, like the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying policies. This means that while it is possible that police killings in other contexts play a role in shaping attitudes towards local police, these effects are difficult to disentangle from other global and local factors.

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调查乔治·弗洛伊德被美国警察杀害对伦敦黑人态度的影响:复制

备受瞩目的警察不当行为事件可能会对公众对警察的信任产生严重后果。《英国政治科学杂志》(British Journal of Political Science)最近的一项研究发现，埃里克·加纳(Eric Garner)在纽约的死亡导致黑人居民对伦敦警察的负面态度高于白人和亚洲居民。目前的研究旨在通过评估乔治·弗洛伊德之死对伦敦人对警察的看法的影响来复制这种跨国效应。使用相同的数据和方法，我们没有复制对伦敦黑人态度的直接影响。我们确实发现，当使用更宽的时间带宽时，不同种族的态度变得更加消极。然而，我们发现了对排斥性假设的违反，这意味着我们不能确定这种影响完全是由于乔治·弗洛伊德的谋杀，或者至少部分是由于不同的动态，如COVID-19大流行的影响及其伴随的政策。这意味着，虽然在其他情况下警察杀人可能在塑造对当地警察的态度方面发挥作用，但这些影响很难与其他全球和当地因素分开。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

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2 months

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