One theoretical framework that has been applied is communication accommodation theory (CAT). CAT, like many theories derived from sociolinguistics, argues that linguistic choices reflect identity and that speakers can increase or decrease the degree to which they associate with a given individual or group by modifying the characteristics of their speech (Giles et al, 2006; Gasiorek, Van de Poel, and Blockmans 2015). When individuals, consciously or unconsciously, change their linguistic features to align more closely with their partners, this is called accommodation, and empirical tests of CAT have generally found that when speakers accommodate each other, they tend to have interactions perceived in more positive way (Soliz and Giles, 2014). Giles and other researchers have used CAT to inform procedural justice by indicating how officers should convey messages of fairness and respect to citizens during an interaction. When CAT is applied specifically to police-citizen interactions, empirical tests have consistently found that higher levels of police accommodation are generally correlated with higher levels of trust and citizen approval ratings (Giles et al., 2006; Giles, Willemyns, et al., 2007). In a systematic review of videotaped interactions between police and citizens, Dixon, Schell, Giles, and Drogos (2008) examined accommodations between drivers and police officers during traffic stops. The researchers found that when the driver and officer were the same race, their coping styles created interactions in which communication behavior and clarity were more positive than when the officer and driver were of different races . Cross-national research conducted by Baker et al (2008) found that perceived levels of accommodation of police officers predicted trust in the police which, in turn,