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“We observe racial disparities in officer respect even in police utterances from the initial 5% of an interaction, suggesting that officers speak differently to community members of different races even before the driver has had the opportunity to say much at all."

Language From Police Body Camera Footage Shows Racial Disparities in Officer Respect

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Voigt, Rob / Camp, Nicholas P. / Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar / Hamilton, William L. / Hetey, Rebecca C. / Griffiths, Camilla M. / Jurgens, David / Jurafsky, Dan / Eberhardt, Jennifer L.

Vol. 114 Issue 25, pp. 6521–6526, 2017

10.1073/pnas.1702413114

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