The Ethnic Attitudes of Addis Ababa Police Commission Investigators Towards Detainees
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2008-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Attitudes towards ethnic groups have become a significant topic for
research. The aim of this paper was to research the ethnic attitude of
Police Investigators towards detainees. As Plause (2007) forwarded no
one gifted of human thought and speech is resistant from prejudice but
with sufficient motivation and awareness it can be reduced.
The research started by looking whether there is ethnic prejudice in
Addis Ababa Police Investigation Departments or not through pilot
survey. After verification and getting some hints of the source of the
ethnic prejudice the research continued by identifying the cause as the
institution problem that comes mainly from the government structure
and officials ' ethnic prejudice towards detectives and the second source
of problem is the individual personality problem. The analysis was done
by identifying and comparing the responses based on four major ethnic
groups.
88 police detectives were chosen randomly from Addis Ababa Police
Investigation Department and four sub city police stations to complete
the questionnaire. In addition interviews were conducted with 93
detainees and former detainees to check whether they perceived or
experienced ethnic prejudice at the time of detention.
One- way- ANOVA, Chi Square, and Tukey HSD Post Hoc test were
employed in the analysis of the results. The obtained result portrayed the
existence of ethnic prejudice of police detectives towards detainees. On
the other hand significant mean differences were found between the
'Tigrie' ethnic group respondents, and each of the three ethnic group
respondents ('Oromo', 'Amhara', and 'Others' ethnic groups).
This research paper gives a unique perspective on the ethnic attitude of
Addis Ababa Police detectives towards detainees.
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Police Investigators towards detainees