Although the conventional wisdom holds that increasing the number of minority officers will enhance residents' perceptions of police and the criminal justice system, further systematic investigation of this hypothesis may be needed. Building on the group‐position thesis, the representative bureaucracy theory, and prior research, this study investigates whether perceived minority police presence within residents' neighborhoods affects residents' perceptions of criminal injustice, whether this effect is more pronounced for minority residents and in minority neighborhoods, and whether perceived minority police presence has a stronger effect on perceptions of criminal injustice for minority residents in more integrated and white neighborhoods than minority residents in minority neighborhoods. Analyses of data collected from Los Angeles, CA, show that residents perceive a lower level of criminal injustice when they report that officers in their neighborhoods are not white‐dominated, and this finding is not dependent on the respondent's race/ethnicity or the racial/ethnic composition of the neighborhood. In addition, perceived minority police presence seems to have a weak to no effect on residents' perceptions of criminal injustice for Hispanic communities. We discuss these findings and their implications for theory, research, and policy.

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种族，族裔和少数民族警察的存在：对洛杉矶居民中刑事不公正的看法

尽管传统观念认为，增加少数族裔官员的人数将增强居民对警察和刑事司法系统的认识，但仍可能需要对该假说进行进一步的系统研究。基于群体论点，代表性官僚主义理论和先前的研究，本研究调查了居民社区内感知到的少数民族警察的存在是否会影响居民对刑事不公的看法，这种影响是否在少数民族居民和少数民族社区中更为明显以及与白人社区中的少数族裔居民相比，在更综合和白人社区中的少数民族居民感知到的少数民族警察的存在是否对刑事不公正观念有更大的影响。分析从加利福尼亚州洛杉矶市收集的数据，结果表明，当居民报告其所在社区的官员并非白人占主导地位时，他们会感觉到较低的刑事不公正程度，这一发现并不取决于受访者的种族/民族或该社区的种族/民族组成。此外，少数民族警察的存在似乎对居民对西班牙裔社区的刑事不公正观念的影响微弱甚至没有影响。我们讨论了这些发现及其对理论，研究和政策的影响。少数民族警察的存在似乎对居民对西班牙裔社区的刑事不公现象的影响微弱甚至没有影响。我们讨论了这些发现及其对理论，研究和政策的影响。少数民族警察的存在似乎对居民对西班牙裔社区的刑事不公现象的影响微弱甚至没有影响。我们讨论了这些发现及其对理论，研究和政策的影响。