The Media, the Public, and the Law Enforcement Community: Correcting Misperceptions

In 2009 The Police Chief published an article based on research that Dr. Lande, the Montana Highway Patrol, and several other researchers at Montana State University conducted on the gap between police and the public's views of one another. This research continues to be timely, since it outlines how trust between police and the public are shaped by inaccurate beliefs that each group holds regarding the other:

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