Purpose The purpose of this paper is to look at the impact of police encounters with young African New Zealanders (referred to in this paper as African youth) on the youth themselves, their family and their community. Design/methodology/approach While much of the existing literature takes a quantitative approach to research the impact of police behaviours on community trust, this paper seeks to gain a qualitative understanding of how the African youth and their community in Aotearoa (Māori word for New Zealand) New Zealand are impacted by encounters with the police. Findings Qualitative data shared by 32 African youth living in Auckland showed that police encounters had left the youth emotionally fearful and wary of any future contact with the police, and had negatively affected their employment opportunities. The family and community were unwilling to seek assistance from the police in times of need with members becoming depressed and withdrawing from community contact because of the shame brought on by these encounters. Research limitations/implications The ability to generalize the findings is limited as participants were recruited primarily through African youth themselves, African social and community organizations and youth workers. Social implications It is important to understand the impact that encounters with the police have on African youth in New Zealand because of the rate of increase in the numbers of African youth in the country, and the need for young people and their communities to feel safe with those legitimately responsible for their safety. Originality/value There is almost no literature on the experiences of African youth with the police in New Zealand and none on how these experiences impact on the youth, their family and community.

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警察在新西兰与非洲青年会面–对青年，家庭和社区的影响

目的本文的目的是研究警察与年轻的非洲新西兰人（在本文中称为非洲青年）的相遇对青年本身，他们的家庭和社区的影响。设计/方法论/方法尽管许多现有文献采用定量方法来研究警察行为对社区信任的影响，但本文旨在对非洲青年及其在奥特罗阿的社区（毛利语为新西兰）的定性理解。 ）新西兰受到警察的影响。调查结果由居住在奥克兰的32名非洲青年共享的定性数据显示，警察的遭遇使他们在情感上感到恐惧和对未来与警察的接触保持警惕，并对他们的就业机会产生了负面影响。家庭和社区不愿意在需要的时候寻求警察的帮助，因为这些遭遇带来的耻辱使成员变得沮丧和退出社区联系。研究的局限性/意义概括研究结果的能力是有限的，因为参与者主要是通过非洲青年自己，非洲社会和社区组织以及青年工人招募的。社会影响重要的是要了解与警察的相遇对新西兰非洲青年的影响，因为该国非洲青年人数的增加速度以及年轻人及其社区对安全感的需求对其安全负有合法责任的人。