Police show reduced shooter bias errors but faster shooting for Black armed 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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In 1995, Amadou Diallo was shot forty-one times by officers from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) (Cooper, 1999). The officers thought he was reaching for a gun, when in fact he had reached into his pocket to retrieve a cell phone. The event spurred a flurry of psychological research examining the possibility of racial bias in shoot/ don’t shoot decisions, demonstrating that when making quick shoot/don’t shoot decisions, lay participants were more likely to make errors by shooting unarmed Black individuals and failing to shoot armed White individuals (Correll, Park, Judd, & Wittenbrink, 2002). The bias in these quick decisions to shoot an unarmed individual may be the result of a commonly held stereotypic association between Black individuals and aggressive behavior and/ or criminality (e. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 858 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Police officers suppress race-linked shooting errors but still react faster against Black suspects — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 1364; Police training reduces shooter misidentification but not racial speed bias; Quick shoot decisions bias toward shooting unarmed Black individuals — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 858 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Police officers suppress race-linked shooting errors but still react faster against Black suspects #corroborates (0.98) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1364
• Police training reduces shooter misidentification but not racial speed bias #corroborates (0.93)
• Quick shoot decisions bias toward shooting unarmed Black individuals #complicates (0.75) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 858