A new study has found white officers are three times less likely to shoot unarmed
black suspects than unarmed white suspects, according to the Washington Post.
The results come from a laboratory project at Washington
State University using highly realistic police simulators, in which actors in
various scenarios approach and respond to officers on large, high-definition
video screens in an attempt to recreate critical situations on the street. The
officers are equipped with real guns, modified to fire infrared beams rather
than bullets, and the scenarios can branch into conflict or cooperation,
depending on the officers’ words and actions.
It’s the third time researchers at Washington State — Lois
James, Stephen M. James and Bryan J. Vila — have set up simulations to monitor
the differing reactions of police when confronted by white or black suspects.
And all three times, they found that officers took significantly more time to
fire their weapons if the subject was black, according to their latest report,
“The Reverse Racism Effect,” to be published in the journal Criminology & Public Policy.
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