Kirk, David S.Rovira, Marti2024-05-062024-05-062022Kirk DS, Rovira M. An audit experiment to investigate the “war on cops”: a research note. J Exp Criminol. 2022 Sep;18(3):569-80. DOI: 10.1007/s11292-021-09458-x1572-8315http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60010Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.Objectives. This study examines whether former police officers are stigmatized in the labor market, particularly following social unrest from lethal police violence. Methods. We conduct an experimental audit study, both before and after heightened unrest from police violence. For service-related job openings, we compare the likelihood of getting an affirmative response from a prospective employer to a job application from a fictitious former police officer (the treatment condition) to the response to one of two control conditions: a former firefighter or a former code enforcement officer. Results. We do not find evidence that former police officers are discriminated against in the labor market. This finding holds in periods characterized by relatively little social unrest due to police violence as well as periods of heightened protest activity. Conclusions. At least with respect to the labor market for certain service-related professions, former police officers do not appear tainted by any stigma associated with their prior profession.application/pdfengThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11292-021-09458-xAudit studyDiscriminationEmploymentExperimentHiringPolicePolice brutalityPolice violencePolice use of forceStigmainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess