“After recruiting a [most qualified] Black applicant in one job selection task, participants were more likely to express a preference for a White in a second, unrelated [police] job selection task… Moral credentials… reaffirm one’s self-image as a nonprejudiced person."
“Stereotypes appear to be leading to a systematic distortion in the perception of a neighborhood’s crime rate.” & “Measures of crime based on official reports … cannot explain all, or even most, of the influence of racial composition on perceptions of neighborhood crime."