Effect of Police Training and Accountability on the Mental Health of African American Adults

摘要

Seeing a police officer evokes different emotions for different people in the United States. Some react with a sense of vicarious pride, respecting the officer’s sacrifice for working in a potentially dangerous job to protect the safety of the public. Some react with neutrality, assuming that the police are there for the “others"-the criminals or the victims, of which they are neither. Finally, a significant number of Americans appears to react with fear.