This paper examines what arrested individuals expect from the police, and the moral grammars they rely on to evaluate police behavior. Drawing on interviews with recently arrested suspects in the Cleveland city jail, we analyze the moral grammars, or common worlds, that residents invoke to reflect on interactions with law enforcement. We find that respondents care about two different moral dimensions in policing. At one level, they want police to treat them with civility and politeness, and to respect their rights—thereby treating them equally with other residents in the city. Yet at a second level, they want police to show care and empathy for their local situation, and to recognize that policing the neighborhoods in which they live is different than policing other parts of the city. As a result, we find that residents who are arrested by the police deploy two orders of worth: a civic order, grounded in fairness, legal rules, equality, and civic belonging in the polity; and a domestic order, based on a politics of community and difference, emphasizing empathy, local knowledge, and personal experience. We demonstrate how individuals assess and test the moral promise of institutions to offer moral recognition, redress, and repair.

本文研究了被捕者对警察的期望，以及他们用来评估警察行为的道德语法。通过对克利夫兰市监狱中最近被捕的嫌疑人的采访，我们分析了居民用来反思与执法部门互动的道德语法或共同世界。我们发现受访者关心警务中的两个不同的道德维度。一方面，他们希望警察以文明礼貌的方式对待他们，并尊重他们的权利，从而与城市中的其他居民一视同仁。然而，在第二个层面上，他们希望警察对当地情况表现出关心和同情，并认识到对他们居住的社区进行治安不同于对城市其他地区的治安。因此，公民秩序，基于公平、法律规则、平等和公民在政体中的归属感；以及基于社区和差异政治的国内秩序，强调同理心、当地知识和个人经验。我们展示了个人如何评估和测试机构提供道德认可、补救和修复的道德承诺。