Aisse Tounkara
Professor Hall
This source is “The Harmful Effects of Implicit Racial Bias in the Police”. As stated in the title we know exactly what it addressing. This source has a lot to contribute to what I am discussing because it talks about the negatives of what happens when police officers have these preconceived notions of African Americans. This source tells me what Police Officers see when they encounter an African American person and vice versa. It’s crazy that this is the norm because this leads to terrible encounters which always ends up deadly. Over the past years we have seen a vast majority of African Americans unarmed men mostly and women lose their lives in the hands of police. When the time comes for justice to be served the excuse is always “ They felt threatened” and this article says that an officer is more likely to shoot an unarmed black person first rather a white man who is armed. This has to due with the fact that a black person will always be seen as a threat. These preconceived notions never end well. Some parts of this source may not be useful because it does not tell me how we can change the implicit bias that is set and the systematic racism. It states all the problems but not any solutions. When a researcher at the American Psychological Association asked Hillary Clinton “If Police were implicitly biased against black people” she herself knew that this was true and a problem. Her response was like everyone else’s trying to beat around the question. There are visible signs of racial disparities. What I want to do research in this curiosity report is whether or not citizens find this a major issue since it’s an ongoing issue. When it comes to other topics people find that extremely important.
