2006

11 entries found for 2006

“Symbols of legitimacy or affluence are not sufficient to counter police suspicion [of middle class Black people], and some contexts may heighten it … Middle-class blacks stopped by the police ‘make a point of displaying middle-class status symbols in self-presentations.'"

“Officers are significantly more likely to form a non-behavioral suspicion when the suspect is Black… 4.4 times greater… Suspect race and method of transportation play an important role in the types of suspicion that police officers form."

“The majority of those who deliver methamphetamine, ecstasy, powder cocaine, and heroin in Seattle are white; blacks are the majority of those who deliver only one drug: crack. Yet 64 percent of those arrested for delivering one of these five drugs is black."

“Dealing with bias… was most predictive of stress when other variables were controlled. Officers reporting high stress said they felt stress from racial or ethnic bias and they spent considerable time and energy dealing with and helping other officers deal with prejudice."

“White supremacist groups have historically engaged in strategic efforts to infiltrate and recruit from law enforcement communities."

The Supreme Court’s “Whren decision allows police to use race as a basis for a stop while hiding behind the traffic violation, no matter how minor, as the pretext for the stop… Vice officers … enforce … one as trivial as stopping too long at a stop sign."

The more “stereotypically Black” a black murderer looks, the more experimental participants were willing to punish the offender, but only when the victim was white.

“Race shaped people’s mistakes. They falsely claimed to see a gun more often when the face was black than when it was white. Under the pressure of a split-second decision, the readiness to see a weapon became an actual false claim of seeing a weapon."

Negative views of black people correlated with officers “shooting unarmed Black suspects on a shooting simulation… Officers with positive contact with Black people in their personal lives were particularly able to eliminate these biases with training on the simulation."

“We find a fairly large race disparity in local police officer stops and a very small one in highway patrol stops … it is difficult for the highway patrol to identify the race of drivers because cars are moving at fairly high speeds."