Purpose

This paper aims to explore the potential impact on policing by consent and trust in the police of diminished political and generalised trust.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper draws on a range of academic literature on trust, the legal foundations of policing by consent, police occupational culture, disproportionality and neighbourhood policing.

Findings

An analytical framework is developed by recognising that policing by consent can be conceived as comprising two complementary facets, police state consent and police citizen consent and drawing lose mappings between police state consent and political trust and police citizen consent and generalised trust. This supports the argument that the importance of tackling disproportionality in policing practices and an increased emphasis on neighbourhood policing are not only valuable for reasons recognised in existing literature but also because they may bolster policing by consent in circumstances of reduced political trust and contribute to increased generalised trust across society.

Originality/value

This paper builds upon existing work on trust in the police and policing by consent to give novel insights into the importance of neighbourhood policing and tackling disproportionality. The analytical frame developed also highlights new areas for nuanced research questions in the field of trust and provides grounding from which policy objectives for policing can be developed.

中文翻译：

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在动荡时期信任警察并通过同意维持治安

目的

本文旨在探讨政治和普遍信任减弱对警察的同意和信任对警务的潜在影响。

设计/方法/方法

本文借鉴了一系列关于信任、同意警务的法律基础、警察职业文化、不相称性和邻里警务的学术文献。

发现

一个分析框架是通过认识到基于同意的警务可以被认为包括两个互补的方面，警察国家同意和警察公民同意，并在警察国家同意和政治信任以及警察公民同意和普遍信任之间绘制了丢失映射。这支持了以下论点，即解决警务实践中的不成比例问题和更加重视社区警务的重要性不仅因为现有文献中认可的原因很有价值，而且还因为它们可以在政治信任降低的情况下通过同意来支持警务，并有助于提高普遍性整个社会的信任。

原创性/价值

本文建立在现有的关于对警察的信任和同意维持治安的工作的基础上，就社区维持治安和解决不成比例问题的重要性提供了新的见解。所开发的分析框架还突出了信任领域中细致入微的研究问题的新领域，并为制定警务政策目标提供了基础。