Being stopped on suspicion produces hostility regardless of a person’s actual guilt

Evidence

A person stopped on suspicion may act with hostility toward the police not because of guilt or intrinsic hostility toward the police, but out of a sense of injustice at being stop~d. When minority or ethnic communities generally regard the police as hostile to their interests this sense of injustice might easily be triggered. The defense of the police (that such approaches are necessary to do their jobs effectively), requires a degree of sympathy for the police position and a sensitivity to the requirements of the role, which may not be shared by the client population. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 905

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes scholarship on procedural justice and legal cynicism in minority communities — the perceived illegitimacy of the stop, not the stop itself, drives the reaction. — connects to: Whether one gets stopped depends on identity, not actual behavior — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 167
• SEED: Angle: why ‘stop and frisk’ policing can be self-defeating — the encounter itself manufactures the resentment that officers read as guilt.

Broader Connections

• Whether one gets stopped depends on identity, not actual behavior #complicates (0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 167