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What did Ivonne Roman discuss in her TEDtalk?
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- Discussed how policewomen make communities safer
- Noted less than 13% of police officers in the U.S. are women, despite their proven effectiveness in diffusing violent situations and reducing the use of force
- Arbitrary changes in physical fitness exams disproportionately affect women
- Many academies based in masculine ideals of policing; results in training does not reflect entire reality of police work
- Hiring more women could mitigate decrease in police applicants due to legitimacy crisis
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Methods of Elizabeth Linos (2018) article
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- Randomized control trial held on household level
- Involved sending postcards to individuals listed as registered voters (this was done for 3 reasons: city had individual-level data including address and demographics; registered voter = meeting some of minimum eligibility requirements of being a police officer; being registered voter could correlate with being more civic-minded than average resident)
- Postcards had some common characteristics (i.e. black male officer on the card, signed message from same officer on back), but varied the types of sentences written on them
3
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Why did Constable Scarecrow not work as well on residential routes?
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Residential routes are travelled by the same people more frequently, so therefore adjustment to the presence and inanimacy of the cutout is faster
