“The training led to increased knowledge about Procedural Justice (PJ) and more procedurally just behavior in the field as compared with the Standard Condition (SC) condition. At the same time, PJ officers made many fewer arrests than SC officers. Residents of the PJ hot spots were significantly less likely to perceive police as harassing or using unnecessary force, though we did not find significant differences between the PJ and SC hot spots in perceptions of PJ and police legitimacy. We found a significant relative 14% decline in crime incidents in the PJ hot spots during the experiment.”
David Weisburd, Cody W. Telep , Heather Vovak , Taryn Zastrow , Anthony A. Braga, and Brandon Turchan (January 2022)
