Public perceptions of police legitimacy and effectiveness have been challenged by recent high-profile use of fatal force incidents by the police. Prior scholarship suggests that that controversial incidents involving police use of force can engender distrust of the police. Further, the neighborhood effects literature has demonstrated the importance of community context for police-community relationships and differential responses to controversial incidents by neighborhoods. The current study assesses how communities of varying racial compositions and levels of economic disadvantage respond to police fatal force incidents by assessing neighborhood crime reporting behaviors. Using monthly 911 call data from Los Angeles, CA neighborhoods, this study explores this relationship with a series of fixed effects negative binomial regression models that model police homicides and crime reporting over a seven-year time period. Comparisons between neighborhoods of varying racial/ethnic composition and structural conditions permit the comparison of differential responses across neighborhood context. The results indicate that neighborhood crime reporting decreases following fatal police use of force incidents. Further, these responses varied across neighborhood contexts. Predominately Hispanic neighborhoods experienced greater declines in crime reporting compared to predominately White neighborhoods. Neighborhoods characterized by high levels of concentrated disadvantaged also experienced greater reductions in crime reporting compared to their more advantaged counterparts. Utilization of the formal legal system can be challenged by controversial police incidents; however, these effects are dependent on neighborhood context. Future research should explore how spatial proximity and media portrayal of incidents influence community responses.

公众对警察合法性和有效性的看法因最近警方高调使用致命武力事件而受到挑战。先前的研究表明，涉及警察使用武力的有争议的事件会导致对警察的不信任。此外，邻里效应文献已经证明了社区背景对于警察与社区关系的重要性以及邻里对有争议事件的不同反应。当前的研究通过评估邻里犯罪报告行为来评估不同种族构成和经济劣势程度的社区如何应对警察致命事件。使用来自加利福尼亚州洛杉矶社区的每月 911 呼叫数据，本研究通过一系列固定效应负二项式回归模型探讨了这种关系，这些模型对七年时间段内的警察凶杀案和犯罪报告进行了建模。不同种族/民族构成和结构条件的社区之间的比较允许比较跨社区环境的不同反应。结果表明，在发生致命的警察使用武力事件后，邻里犯罪报告有所减少。此外，这些反应因邻里环境而异。与以白人为主的社区相比，以西班牙裔为主的社区的犯罪报告下降幅度更大。与更有利的社区相比，以高度集中弱势群体为特征的社区的犯罪报告也减少了更多。有争议的警察事件可能会挑战正式法律制度的使用；然而，这些影响取决于邻里环境。未来的研究应该探讨事件的空间邻近性和媒体描述如何影响社区反应。