Police resist beat systems out of fear that officer involvement breeds bias.

Evidence

Police officials resist instituting (or more properly, reinstituting) a beat system because they are apprehensive that officers would become too involved with neighborhood residents, and thus perhaps engage in biased behavior. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 734

Categorization

• SHARE: A niche criminology or policing-history buff would enjoy the counterintuitive logic that proximity, not distance, is feared as the bias risk.
• XREF: connects to: Police resist bias data collection out of fear of blame and accusation. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 424; Fear of blame makes police agencies avoid discussing racial disparities — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 356

Broader Connections

• Police resist bias data collection out of fear of blame and accusation. #expands (0.85) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 424
• Fear of blame makes police agencies avoid discussing racial disparities #expands (0.80) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 356