A free version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the United States, the exercise of police authority-and the public's trust that police authority is used properly-is a recurring concern.Contemporary prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would better trust the police and feel a greater obligation to comply and cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher levels of procedural justice by police.In this book, Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean argue that the procedural justice model of reform is a mirage.From a distance, procedural justice seemingly offers a relief from strained police-community relations.But a closer look at police organizations and police-citizen interactions shows that the relief offered by such reform is, in fact, illusory.