The Stability of Implicit Racial Bias in Police Officers

Racial Bias in Police Investigations

Law enforcement discrimination studies are usually qualified by selection concerns regarding which encounters transpire between individuals and police. This paper overcomes these problems by examining automobile crash investigations by a State Police Department. Because officers are dispatched to investigate crashes on the basis of factors unrelated to driver race, these interactions are effect...

Across the thin blue line: police officers and racial bias in the decision to shoot.

Police officers were compared with community members in terms of the speed and accuracy with which they made simulated decisions to shoot (or not shoot) Black and White targets. Both samples exhibited robust racial bias in response speed. Officers outperformed community members on a number of measures, including overall speed and accuracy. Moreover, although community respondents set the decisi...

Female Police Officers: Gender Bias and Professionalism

Implicit Racial Bias in Medical School Admissions.

PROBLEM Implicit white race preference has been associated with discrimination in the education, criminal justice, and health care systems and could impede the entry of African Americans into the medical profession, where they and other minorities remain underrepresented. Little is known about implicit racial bias in medical school admissions committees. APPROACH To measure implicit racial bi...

Interaction Between Race and Gender and Effect on Implicit Racial Bias Against Blacks

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