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                            Funding & Awards
 Assessing Police Performance in Citizen Encounters: Promoting Police Legitimacy and Accountability
Award Information
Awardee
              The John Finn Institute for Public Safety, Inc
Award #
              2010-IJ-CX-0027
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Albany, NY
Congressional District
              20
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2010
Total funding (to date)
              $339,267
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 10 ORE Research on Policing
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2010, $339,267)
The present research includes plans to implement and examine the impacts of building citizen assessment of service quality into systems of police performance measurement and accountability.  The proposed project includes a police services survey to measure the quality of police services in terms of the subjective experiences of people who have contact with the Syracuse and Schenectady, NY police departments. The survey will capture citizens' perceptions of the quality of their contact with the police, views on legitimacy, and assessments of dimensions of police services. The survey results will be compiled on a monthly basis and reported to the PDs in the context of monthly Compstat meetings.  The proposed project also includes a review and analysis of in-car video footage which will be used as a means to cross-validate citizens' reports, and to establish the credibility of survey-based measures. Interviews with command staff and focus groups with uniform personnel will be conducted to assess what police managers do with this information, and how (if at all) field supervisors and patrol officers are affected by it. Additionally, the project will survey key community informants to assess the extent to which citizens are aware of organizational steps the departments are taking to monitor police behavior and hold officers accountable.  Analytical techniques will include descriptive analyses; multivariate statistical techniques, including pooled cross-sectional time series from which the grantee can more systematically describe trends in the data, and estimate the impact of introducing measures of these outcomes into the Compstat process; and content analyses of qualitative interview and focus group data.ca/ncf



  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Police Use of Force Escalation and De-escalation: The Use of Systematic Social Observation With Video FootagePolice Use of Force Escalation and De-escalation: The Use of Systematic Social Observation With Video Footage
                  Systematic social event modeling: A methodology for analyzing body-worn camera footage
                  Measuring, managing, and enhancing procedural justice in policing: Promise and pitfalls
                  Assessing Police Performance in Citizen Encounters: Police Legitimacy and Management Accountability

  
Date Created: September 15, 2010
    
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