De-Policing as Reform? Police Tactics after Black Lives Matter’s 2020 Protests
Published online on April 16, 2026
Abstract
American Politics Research, Ahead of Print.
Can mass protests for racial justice influence police patrol tactics? Which racial and spatial mechanisms underlie these changes? Previous literature suggests that high-profile events can lead individual agents to alter their enforcement activities by ‘de-...
Can mass protests for racial justice influence police patrol tactics? Which racial and spatial mechanisms underlie these changes? Previous literature suggests that high-profile events can lead individual agents to alter their enforcement activities by ‘de-...