Grassroots protest groups do well at policing their own communities, which in many parts of Syria have the feel of zones liberated from military occupation.
Imani Henry helped organize the Brooklyn Anti-gentrification Network, a coalition of grassroots activists and tenants that highlight the intersection of gentrification and policing.
General ordered logic model shows the following: (1) external efficacy increases police trust greatly while internal efficacy reduce police trust; (2) although public resistance reduces police trust, participation in grassroots election increases police trust to certain extent.
Distinctive from the effects of grassroots elections on police trust, rightful resistance tends to produce complaints against the police.
The significant correlation between grassroots elections and police trust can be regarded as an effect of grassroots election participation on the public.
Then, the next question is, why does the urban grassroots election accelerates police trust more than the rural area one does in our findings?
The influence of grassroots election on police trust in the four groups' odds ratios are larger than 1, and all data show statistical significance, which means that grassroots election have positive impact on police trust.
Thus, studying police trust from the perspective of political participation could include more aspects ignored in existing research before (Sun et al. 2012), in particular, the impact of grassroots election on police trust.
