More prominent in the news now more than ever, is the reporting of black men being shot down by police, and more often than not now, it feels unjustified. When we discuss racial bias by police officers, it can be described through four different mechanism’s: racial profiling, deployment, cognitive bias and stereotyping, and prejudice and racial animus.
What is more likely at play is an unconscious, singling out and stereotyping.
Prejudice and racial animus is the most obvious of the mechanism used. It is a conscious, active racism. They know exactly what they doing is racial profiling.
Other mechanisms are less active and used at an unconscious level. As with racial profiling. The use of stereotyping and associations. With the use of place
What is more likely at play is an unconscious, singling out and stereotyping.
Prejudice and racial animus is the most obvious of the mechanism used. It is a conscious, active racism. They know exactly what they doing is racial profiling.
Other mechanisms are less active and used at an unconscious level. As with racial profiling. The use of stereotyping and associations. With the use of place