NYC Police and Racial Animus

by | Dec 9, 2006 | Crime and Punishment, Racial Politics, Urban Politics | 3 comments

I did a piece for NPR about the Sean Bell killing, tying it into the research on implicit attitudes and race.  You can find it here.

3 Comments

  1. Dumi
    Dumi on December 11, 2006 at 7:07 pm

    Nice piece, way to bring in the IAT. Do you think the IAT is reliable enough to be used as a metric of “removing” officers? And are you aware of trainings that can reduce implicit biases?

  2. Lester Spence
    Lester Spence on December 11, 2006 at 7:27 pm

    there’s some research that i’ve heard of, probably through prometheus6 that shows that implicit biases CAN be reduced. and i think the IAT is probably not reliable enough to remove officers, but it is likely reliable enough to screen candidates at the early stages.