Police Perceptions of Maori - Rethinking Crime and Punishment

List of Tables
Table 1 Rank and gender of those responding 10
Table 2 Ethnicity of police officers in the sample 11
Table 3 Have heard racist language used about or to suspects
or offenders 13
Table 4 In general, are the police more likely to do the following
when the person is Maori, Caucasian or is it the same for both 15
Table 5 Respondents' views of the percentage of the police that have
negative attitudes towards Maori, Pacific Islanders and Asians 17
Table 6 Respondents' views on changes in negative attitudes of
police officers toward Maori since they entered the police 19
Table 7 Relationship between Maori police and other police generally 19
Table 8 Tasks more difficult for Maori and non Maori police officers 20
Table 9 Agreement with items referring to possible actions by the
NZ Government on Maori issues 21
Table 10 Two clusters of items from a factor analysis of 9 items
relating to Maori political aspirations showing the amount of
variance associated with each item with each cluster 22
Table 11 Relationship among 9 items relating to Maori political
aspirations as shown by the loadings on the first factor 23
Table 12 The distribution of scores on AMPAS, a scale of positive to
negative attitudes towards Maori political aspirations 23
Table 13 Average AMPAS scores comparing police officers on a
number of demographic, service and contact variables 25
Table 14 Agreement with items about police policy and strategy 26
Table 15 In general, are the police more likely to do the following
when the person is of Maori descent, Caucasian or is it the
same for both 31
Table 16 Relationship between Maori police and other police generally
showing the views of officers identifying as NZ European and
officers of Maori descent 32
Table 17 Mean score on a five point scale from 'strongly agree'
to 'strongly disagree' with items about police policy and
strategy for NZ European and Maori respondents 34
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