ABSTRACT
In Chapters 8 and 9 we showed that police-initiated contacts – such as street-stops – seem to have a negative impact on both trust in police effectiveness and trust in police fairness and intentions. Some encounters were judged positively by the individuals involved, and in our general population survey of Londoners, positively received stop encounters are linked to higher average levels of trust (Chapter 8). Importantly, this does not seem to be the case for a special population of young males from Black and Minority Ethnic groups (Chapter 9), suggesting that these encounters are more fraught and more adversarial than the sorts of interactions that the average person in London tends to have with officers.
