Institutional responses to fatal bias mistakes remain symbolic and disproportionately mild

Evidence

Failing to communicate information accurately can have tragic consequences, as it did in the case of Tamir Rice, a twelve-year-old who was playing with a pellet gun when two police officers shot and killed him (Shooting of Tamir Rice, n.d.). … In this case the dispatcher was suspended for eight days for a mistake that could have legitimately saved the twelve-year-old’s life. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 282

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 282