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Traditional police culture (TPC) is a set of attitudes and values, developed as coping mechanisms for police work’s unique and inherent strains, that fosters distrust toward, and isolation from, citizens. An online survey of 781 American police officers from 48 U.S. states is used to assess: first, the individual, organizational, and contextual correlates of endorsement of TPC, and second, whether endorsement of TPC relates to support for the use of force and support for procedurally just tactics. Results indicate that, apart from supervisor status and supervisor race, individual-level officer characteristics are not related to endorsement of TPC. By contrast, organizational factors—agency size and type—relate to endorsement of TPC among line officers, but not supervisors. Results also indicate that support for use of force and support for procedural justice are strongly linked to TPC endorsement among both line officers and managers.
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