Police Networks

The influence of workplace friendships on firearm use
Early police ethnographies suggest that officers are shaped by the colleagues around them. Officers’ workplace networks, including …
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The role of networks in policing
Social ties are a defining feature of policing. They enforce norms, carry prestige, reward loyalty, silence dissent, create cohesion, …
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The role of networks in policing
Invite only: The prevalence of subgroups within a police department
All code used to generate the results in this paper are available at 👉 https://github.com/M-Ouellet/ponet-invite
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Invite only: The prevalence of subgroups within a police department
Partners in force? Understanding police use of force from a network perspective
When police abuses occur, they tend to involve groups of officers, rather than lone officers acting independently. The impact of …
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Partners in force? Understanding police use of force from a network perspective
Officer networks and firearm behaviors
We reconstruct the networks of officers co-involved in force incidents to test whether interactions with weapon-prone peers impact …
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Officer networks and firearm behaviors
The promise of a network approach for policing research
Considerable attention has been devoted to understanding police socialization and the resulting culture, yet only recently have …
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The promise of a network approach for policing research
Network exposure and excessive use of force
In this study, we investigate how a police officer’s exposure to peers accused of misconduct shapes his or her involvement in …
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Network exposure and excessive use of force