Abstract
In their article, `Conservatism, Dogmatism and Authoritarianism in British Police Officers', Colman and Gorman interpret their own data in a selective and distorting fashion, so as to give a false and damaging impression of police officers' attitudes, especially towards ethnic minorities. Their explanation for these `findings' are also unsatisfactory: being based upon a weak notion of socialization, and ignoring more obvious alternative explanations. The result is to, wrongly, imply a reductionist explanation for the current crisis in police-community relations.
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