ABSTRACT
Ideas ebb and flow. In the 1970s and 1980s, both police leaders and academics routinely appealed to concepts of policing by consent and police legitimacy (cf. Reiner, 2010). In Britain in the 1990s, these ideas were submerged under a wave of crude managerialism from which we are only now emerging (Hough, 2007). Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in ensuring that the public (a) find the police trustworthy, (b) think the police are a legitimate authority, and (c) believe it is morally just to both obey the law and cooperate with legal institutions.
