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The Vicious Cycle of Cops Behaving Badly
READ ABOUT: Little Rock's Newest Corrupt Police Chief Kenton Buckner Pacific Standard Reports: The Vicious Cycle of Cops Behaving Badly Cops act badly. The public loses confidence in cops. Cops behave worse. The public's trust in cops drops to an all-time low. It's a dangerous, vicious cycle. With the recent surge in media coverage of unarmed black men being gunned down by police officers, America's faith in police officers is plummeting . And it's not just the public that's losing faith: According to a new study in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, this "crisis in police legitimacy" is not only detrimental to the general public, but also to the future of policing as a whole. In social science circles, the level of trust placed in police officers by the public is known as "legitimacy." When police act respectfully, in the public's eye, their legitimacy goes up. When the