An innovative Washington State University study of deadly force reveals that participants were more likely to feel threatened in scenarios involving black people. But when it came time to shoot, participants were biased in favor of black suspects, taking longer to pull the trigger against them than against armed white or Hispanic suspects.The findings, published in the recent iJournal of Experimental Criminology/i, grow out of dozens of simulations aimed at ...
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