Transcription of Implicit Bias and Policing
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Social and Personality Psychology Compass 10/1 (2016): 50 63, Implicit bias and Policing Katherine B. Spencer1, Amanda K. Charbonneau2 and Jack Glaser2. 1. Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 2. Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Abstract In a time when racial prejudice is generally taboo and decision makers, including law enforcement officials, strenuously disavow the use of group-based stereotypes to make judgments that affect others, one might expect discriminatory outcomes to be unusual. However, research repeatedly indicates that discrimination is pervasive across many domains, and specifically in Policing . A major cause of biased Policing is likely the Implicit biases that operate outside of conscious awareness and control but nevertheless inf luence our behaviors. Implicit biases ( , stereotypes linking Blacks with crime or with related traits like violence or hostility) inf luence judgments through processes of misattribution and disambiguation.
situations, this bias in latencywould often translat e into decision errors. Dramatic racial disparities in actual use-of-force decisions (e.g., New York State Task Force on Police-on-Police Shootings, 2010) are consistent with the patterns of results in the …
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