An audit experiment to investigate the "war on cops": a research note.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study examines whether former police officers are stigmatized in the labor market, particularly following social unrest from lethal police violence.

Methods

We conduct an experimental audit study, both before and after heightened unrest from police violence. For service-related job openings, we compare the likelihood of getting an affirmative response from a prospective employer to a job application from a fictitious former police officer (the treatment condition) to the response to one of two control conditions: a former firefighter or a former code enforcement officer.

Results

We do not find evidence that former police officers are discriminated against in the labor market. This finding holds in periods characterized by relatively little social unres

SUBMITTER: Kirk DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7971355 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature