Highlighting the effect of positive encounter with police on attitudes toward the police, Rusinko, Johnson, and Hornung (1978) have argued that positive contact with the police in a supportive context tends to neutralize negative attitudes held by adolescents toward the police, even among highly delinquent youth. It is possibly because of this that Hurst and Frank (2000) noted that adolescents who have had positive encounters with the police tend to have more positive attitudes toward the police and vice versa. This view has been reinforced with the observation that people who initiate contact with the police (voluntary encounter) tend to view the “police more favorably than those whose contact was initiated by the police” (Cheurprakobkit, 2000, p. 332). Schafer, Huebner and Bynum (2003) best sum the effect of citizen-police encounter on attitudes towards the police with the observation that the nature, frequency and satisfaction of encounter with the police are key determinants of the perceptions of and attitudes toward the police.