De-Policing as Reform? Police Tactics after Black Lives Matter’s 2020 Protests
Published online on April 16, 2026
Abstract
American Politics Research, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 500-511, July 2026.
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-...