Police Researcher: Officers Have Similar Biases Regardless Of Race

One common recommendation for reducing police brutality against people of color is to have police departments mirror a given area's racial makeup.

He says that diversity helps but that "officers, regardless of their race or gender, have similar implicit biases, particularly about Black people."

The first big thing is that when officers take the implicit association test, they exhibit bias against Black people.

We also know that officers speak less respectfully to Black people during traffic stops as well as during other sorts of settings.

I was talking to a former police officer whose job is now to recruit more Black and brown police officers into [the Minneapolis] force.