%0 Journal Article
%T Policing through social networking:  Testing the linkage between digital and physical police practices
%A Michael F Aiello
%J The Police Journal
%@ 1740-5599
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0032258X17690932
%X Researchers are starting to explore predictive models for departmental usage of opportunities to self-represent online. This is the first study to independently address police social networking in the US across a variety of social media platforms. Using the sampling frame of the 558 ¡®self-representing¡¯ municipal police department respondents in the 2007 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) data, I collected information concerning whether departments maintained active accounts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in 2014. The LEMAS data provides key independent variables concerning each department¡¯s community-oriented policing commitment and technological sophistication. Ultimately, these organisational features are not predictive of departmental use of any of the three social networking sites
%K Police web presence
%K community-oriented policing
%K social networking
%K police technology
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0032258X17690932