Table 2.
Results of Study 1a regression analysis using threat associated with police officers and Black men to predict support for policing policy reform items.
| Police officers | Black men | Adjusted R2 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β | B | SE | p | β | B | SE | p | ||||
| Scrutiny (a) | 0.005 | ||||||||||
| (b) | 0.30 | 0.50 | 0.11 | <0.001 | 0.10* | −0.15 | −0.40 | 0.18 | 0.023 | 0.02* | 0.119 |
| (c) | 0.29 | 0.48 | 0.11 | <0.001 | 0.08* | −0.14 | −0.38 | 0.18 | 0.041 | 0.02* | 0.111 |
| Cameras (a) | 0.085 | ||||||||||
| (b) | −0.06 | −0.10 | 0.11 | 0.354 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.08 | 0.18 | 0.681 | 0.00 | −0.004 |
| (c) | −0.07 | −0.12 | 0.11 | 0.287 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.18 | 0.595 | 0.00 | 0.083 |
| Demographic matching (a) | 0.034 | ||||||||||
| (b) | 0.29 | 0.26 | 0.08 | 0.001 | 0.05* | −0.06 | −0.12 | 0.12 | 0.317 | 0.01 | 0.053 |
| (c) | 0.26 | 0.23 | 0.08 | 0.004 | 0.04* | −0.07 | −0.13 | 0.13 | 0.290 | 0.01 | 0.074 |
| Lethal force justified (a) | 0.010 | ||||||||||
| (b) | −0.13 | −0.30 | 0.15 | 0.051 | 0.02 | 0.24 | 0.89 | 0.25 | <0.001 | 0.06* | 0.074 |
| (c) | −0.12 | −0.28 | 0.16 | 0.077 | 0.02 | 0.24 | 0.90 | 0.26 | <0.001 | 0.06* | 0.081 |
Model 1 (a) includes only the demographic covariates (age, race, ethnicity, and gender), model 2 (b) contains only the threat measures, and model 3 (c) includes threat measures, controlling for demographic covariates. Statistically significant (p < 0.05) effects are indicated by an asterisk.