Abstract

In a survey study of police officers in Alabama this paper assesses how demographic factors of police officers their reception of training on cultural diversity and the awareness of their department s written policy on bias-based policing are related to their perception of bias-based policing practices in their department To achieve the goal of the present study a survey of 400 officers was used to run multivariate logistic regression analyses Three variables display significant association with a police officer s perception regarding witnessing bias-based policing practices Officers with younger age group higher education and longer work experience in the department are more likely to say that they have witnessed bias-based policing practices as compared with their counterparts with older age groups lower education and shorter work experience