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Message: [QUOTE="theshed, post: 2912450, member: 2290"] There is plenty of data available on the biases people have based on race when determining threats. The fact is, in studies that place people in the situation of very quick decision making, unarmed black people are far more likely to be erroneously labelled as armed/a threat. Somewhat interestingly, this bias is also displayed to some extent by black participants. Now what causes this bias is purely speculation. Media’s portrayal of blacks, inbuilt racism, genetic tribalism, the real issue of higher crime rates in black communities, or one of or a combination of infinite other possibilities. This of course means that police offices may not be anymore bias than the general pop (I don’t know, I’m not aware of data from these types of experiments comparing US police to the general pop). So it’s possible to say that any of us have the potential to react in the same way if we were in the shoes of the cops. I’m not going to hate on individual police officers for their very human errors. The fact that it may be at least partially a subconscious reaction doesn’t take away from it being an issue that needs to be addressed though. Be it through better training, or more exposure to black communities. I’m not sure of the answer. Of course, like with all stats the death by cop numbers should be looked at closer, and there should be mention of whether the police were in actual danger or not, wether the shootings were justified or not. So I agree to some extent “guilt and innocence” should be discussed if by guilt you mean they are guilty of endangering the lives of police or others. If you just mean they were guilty of committing a crime than that is irrelevant, the police are there to bring suspects in front of the legal system and not to dole out street justice. Even taking that into account it definitely is a vs blacks issue. Perhaps not ‘white vs blacks’ but definitely a police or society vs blacks issue. [/QUOTE]

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