Timothy M. Gill

Timothy M. Gill is an Assistant Professor in the Department Sociology and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

White Cops: The Height of Racial Resentment

While decades of sociological research betray the general sentiments of many white citizens, white law enforcement officers continue to maintain even more racially resentful and racially conservative sets of beliefs than white citizens writ large.

Timothy M. Gill
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Members of the Baltimore Police Department stand guard outside the department's Western District police station during a protest in response to Freddie Gray's death in Baltimore. Baltimore's mayor and commissioner say they are eager and ready to change not only the culture of law enforcement, but the practice. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Researchers will surely continue to plow the 2016 U.S. presidential election looking for answers to Donald Trump’s victory for decades to come. What we know now, though, is that racial resentment played a prominent role in the equation. Michael Tesler has shown, for instance, that white racial resentment “was more tightly linked to [support for

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