Common sense would suggest that experience with the police is a key factor in determining
how citizens perceive the police. Some researchers have argued that involuntary contacts
with the police (for example, stops on the street) are particularly likely to generate negative
reactions among citizens. 1 Police experts and civil rights leaders have believed that
minority youth in the United States are especially likely to be disrespected verbally,
threatened, or shoved by the police and that this leads to antipathy toward the police …