ETHNICITY, GENDER, AND POLICE-COMMUNITY ATTITUDES

This article examines the relationship between police officer ethnicit y and gender and attitudes toward police-public interpersonal relation s. Data used were obtained from a self-administered survey of 2,800 LA PD patrol officers conducted during january 1992. Results suggested th at ethnicity and gender are not significant predictors of officers' at titudes toward the occupational role with community members. Rather, i t was discovered that ''community-mindedness'' on the part of officers is the product of individual police-community attitudes, which are mu ltidimensional in nature.