Police demand visible deference gestures that demonstrate suspect status understood

Evidence

The psychological implications of interactions with street-level bureaucrats may be fleeting where the interaction is not sustained. Police tend to treat people they apprehend scornfully or respectfully depending upon their apparent moral worthiness and the respect they display for the police. To be treated with respect, or with utter disrespect, by these symbols of authority have implications for citizens’ views of themselves. People stopped by the police in a sense discover whether they are or are not the kind of person to whom respect is normally granted. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 506 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Police expect citizens to obey orders. The occasional incidents in which deaf or mentally handicapped persons are shot by police who think they are normal but defiant citizens provide tragic testimony to the sanctions delivered to people who fail to behave as expected. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 478 (#builds-on, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: People physically unable to perform expected deference cues risk lethal police sanction — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 478; Police treatment teaches stopped citizens their own worthiness of respect — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 506; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: Ours, True, and the Identity That Defends Both”

Related

• Police treatment teaches stopped citizens their own worthiness of respect (similarity 0.87)
• People physically unable to perform expected deference cues risk lethal police sanction (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Police treatment teaches stopped citizens their own worthiness of respect #contradicts (0.75) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 506