true i've seen that another way this bias shows up is in shooting simulations, cops will hesitate longer before pulling the trigger if the simulated suspect is black than if he's white > in two previous tests using police simulators, james monitored the neurophysiological reactions, such as brain waves, of both police officers and civilians to deadly encounters. she said in an interview tuesday that she found that the participants were experiencing a greater threat response when faced with african americans instead of white or hispanic suspects. but even with that response, in both studies the police and non-police participants were significantly slower to shoot armed black suspects than armed white suspects, and significantly less likely to mistakenly shoot unarmed black suspects than unarmed white suspects.   /true-crime/wp/2016/04/27/this-stud y-found-race-matters-in-police-shoo tings-but-the-results-may-surprise- you/
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