Recent debates over policing have centered on the proper role of policing in society. Using the lenses of democratic policing and police legitimacy, we suggest that individuals’ willingness to call the police is one method for understanding the public’s consent to be policed and their view of the appropriate role of policing. This simple relationship is further complicated by differential relationships between willingness to cooperate with the police and four typologies of police legitimacy: trustworthiness, normative alignment, obligation to obey, and traditional legitimacy. Using the pretest and posttest of a survey vignette, we show that (1) individuals who legitimate the police on the basis of their traditional role in society are more likely to call the police for benign issues, (2) officer-involved shootings negatively impact individuals’ willingness to call the police, and (3) there is a greater reduction in willingness to call the police following an officer-involved shooting when individuals legitimate the police on the basis of perceived normative alignment.

最近关于警务的争论集中在警务在社会中的适当作用。从民主警务和警察合法性的角度来看，我们认为个人报警的意愿是了解公众是否同意接受警务以及他们对警务适当角色的看法的一种方法。这种简单的关系因与警察合作的意愿与警察合法性的四种类型之间的差异关系而变得更加复杂：可信性、规范一致性、服从义务和传统合法性。通过对调查小插曲的前测和后测，我们表明：(1) 根据其在社会中的传统角色而使警察合法化的个人更有可能因良性问题报警，(2) 警察参与的枪击事件会产生负面影响个人报警的意愿；(3) 当个人根据感知到的规范一致性使警察合法化时，在发生警察枪击事件后报警的意愿会大大降低。