7 - Evidence
Quiet Cooperation in Baltimore
from Part III - Interventions for Promoting Cooperation
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This chapter presents the results of a survey experiment testing cooperation interventions in Baltimore. It describes existing efforts in the city to promote cooperation with the police and how police rely on information from witnesses. The survey experiment entails respondents viewing and responding to a professionally produced fictional news report of a shooting with experimental variations to test the various interventions. The results show police encouraging cooperators to call an anonymous tip line (as opposed to a non-anonymous line) as well as creating awareness of cooperation norms both increase information sharing. The police commander portrayed in the news report being the same race as the respondent does not change the amount information that they are willing to share. The chapter also discusses the mechanisms of how support for cooperation exists in Baltimore despite distrust of the police.
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- Silencing CitizensHow Criminal Groups Create Vacuums of Justice, pp. 217 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024