Police officers suppress race-linked shooting errors but still react faster against Black suspects

Evidence

Notably, police officers are less apt to make the same errors as untrained lay participants, but police officers show greater speed in shooting when the person with the gun is Black (Correll, 2007). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1364

Categorization

• QUESTION: The speed-vs-accuracy dissociation in trained officers is striking; worth chasing the Correll 2007 design for response-time thresholds versus error measures.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s implicit-vs-explicit bias divergence question: professional training closes the accuracy gap while leaving response latency bias intact.
• SEED: The trained-officer speed-vs-accuracy dissociation is a ready-made angle for how measured bias persists when corrected behavior appears unbiased.
• 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…, 1364