ABSTRACT
Tyler and Huo found that individuals' trust in legal authorities such as the police was associated with their compliance with authorities' decisions and laws. This chapter reviews the controversial issues regarding police shootings and the survey research regarding whether trust in the police is high or low. It also reviews the research on corruption in the police, racial bias by the police, procedural justice and trust, and racial biases in people's trust of the police. The chapter culminates in research showing that police officers' trust in the police force is associated with their psychological well-being and low stress. The BDT Framework is a useful way of assessing trust beliefs in the police because it permits explicit judgments of trustworthiness of police as part of their duties. Police officers' emotion-based publicly-ascribed trust beliefs in the police were positively associated with their psychological well-being and tended to be negatively associated with their stress in the workplace.
