quote:
Police officers show significantly greater evidence of unconscious racial bias when they’re fatigued, according to a newly reported study by a researcher at Washington State U. in Spokane.
“When officers received less sleep preceding each test session, they were significantly more likely to associate Black Americans with weapons compared with when they had received more sleep. In other words, sleep restriction appeared to increase anti-Black bias,” writes Dr. Lois James, (solus comment: white female PHD in the nursing pgm) an assistant professor who conducted the study.
FINDINGS. Analyzing the results, James found that a strong majority of the officers tended to more quickly associate what they believed were weapons with black faces and were more often wrong in assessing innocuous objects as weapons when black faces were involved. These are considered valid indications of moderate to strong unconscious or “implicit” racial bias, she says.
A “large body” of similar findings have been reported from other studies as well. Indeed, implicit biases exist outside their conscious awareness “in people across many walks of life,” James writes.
IMPLICATIONS. “The findings that bias is variable and also that sleep restriction increased anti-Black bias have implications,” James writes.
Furthermore, if tired officers are more biased, then programs designed to improve officer sleep may have consequences beyond improving officer health.” Anti-bias training for police is needed, James writes. unquote FS news #349.
gee whiz, it is the 21st century and i wonder what this type of study done in the '60 which led to improved LE training would have resulted in those interactions between the nice LE's and the nation's ethnic communities these past 50 years.
interestingly:
2014: https://news.wsu.edu/2014/09/02/deadly-force-lab-finds-racial-disparities-in-shootings/
2016:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ults-may-surprise-you/?utm_term=.322c267413b7
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-9133.12187/abstract
kinda makes you wonder why it took the police advocacy group Force Science group 3 years to acknowledge the subject matter...guess they missed the black lives matter email
Police officers show significantly greater evidence of unconscious racial bias when they’re fatigued, according to a newly reported study by a researcher at Washington State U. in Spokane.
“When officers received less sleep preceding each test session, they were significantly more likely to associate Black Americans with weapons compared with when they had received more sleep. In other words, sleep restriction appeared to increase anti-Black bias,” writes Dr. Lois James, (solus comment: white female PHD in the nursing pgm) an assistant professor who conducted the study.
FINDINGS. Analyzing the results, James found that a strong majority of the officers tended to more quickly associate what they believed were weapons with black faces and were more often wrong in assessing innocuous objects as weapons when black faces were involved. These are considered valid indications of moderate to strong unconscious or “implicit” racial bias, she says.
A “large body” of similar findings have been reported from other studies as well. Indeed, implicit biases exist outside their conscious awareness “in people across many walks of life,” James writes.
IMPLICATIONS. “The findings that bias is variable and also that sleep restriction increased anti-Black bias have implications,” James writes.
Furthermore, if tired officers are more biased, then programs designed to improve officer sleep may have consequences beyond improving officer health.” Anti-bias training for police is needed, James writes. unquote FS news #349.
gee whiz, it is the 21st century and i wonder what this type of study done in the '60 which led to improved LE training would have resulted in those interactions between the nice LE's and the nation's ethnic communities these past 50 years.
interestingly:
2014: https://news.wsu.edu/2014/09/02/deadly-force-lab-finds-racial-disparities-in-shootings/
2016:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ults-may-surprise-you/?utm_term=.322c267413b7
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-9133.12187/abstract
kinda makes you wonder why it took the police advocacy group Force Science group 3 years to acknowledge the subject matter...guess they missed the black lives matter email
