Police - Community Relations: Minority Complaints Filed with the City of Flint's Ombudsman's Office

minority community;police;complaint;Flint;Michigan;Public Administration

Weiler, Richard LeeFlint ;

University of Michigan

关键词: minority community;    police;    complaint;    Flint;    Michigan;    Public Administration;   

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【 摘 要 】

Do minority communities receive inferior police services? Are minorities subjected to police abuse more frequently than nonminorities? Although the literature addressing this topic seems to indicate such to be the case, little empirical evidence is presented to support such a position. I an attempt to identify some evidence in hopes of providing some insight to the questions posed earlier, this project reviewed complaints about police. For the years 1981 through 1985, the City of Flint Ombudsman;;s Office received nearly 2,000 complaints about police and police services. An analysis of those complaints indicates that although the data contained in the Ombudsman;;s Office was somewhat inadequate in answering the questions posed earlier, the data was consistent with the literature in that residents of predominantly minority communities do register more complaints against the police than do residents of a predominantly white community.