Shaping Police Officer Mindsets and Behaviors: Experimental Evidence of Procedural Justice Training

The authors want to express their gratitude to the former staff of Innovations for Poverty Action, including Lluvia Gabriela González García, Gustavo Emmanuel Hernández Peña, Elvia Cristina López García, and Julia Lendorfer. None of this work would been possible without outstanding support from the SSC staff, particularly José Gil García, Rodrigo Álvarez, Luis Antonio Guevara Campos, Jose Carmelo Morales Águila and Raybel Rangel. The authors also want to give special recognition to the actors whose professionalism and commitment made the simulated interactions possible. The authors want to thank the trainers José Martín Grimaldo Serrano, Julián Jesús Gudiño Galindo, and Angélica Garnica Sosa, and the Escuela Bancaria Comercial and its staff, with special thanks to Javier Prieto Echeverría, for facilitating the space for the traininings. The authors also express their thanks to the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) for their support of an unprecedented project, especially to Darrell Paskett, Lorena Vela del Cueto, Nelson Vargas, and José Luis Copil. The team at the Yale Justice Collaboratory, in particular Tom Tyler and his collaborators, were infinitely generous with their materials and expertise—thank you. Finally, the authors extend their most profound gratitude to the police officers who contributed to creating and adapting the Procedural Justice materials and to all the participants in the training sessions. The authors were fortunate to have especially insightful reviewers and editors at Management Science, who greatly improved the manuscript.