Posted on 09/29/2020 7:54:09 AM PDT by karpov
Police officers in a majority of states are now mandated to receive “implicit bias training,” where they are informed they are subconsciously racist and must admit to and deliberately overcome their racism.
The trainings, which exploded in popularity following the Ferguson riots in 2014, directly respond to accusations that racist police officers are shooting unarmed African Americans. Following the death of George Floyd, multiple states, including Michigan, New Jersey, and Texas, joined the list of states mandating the training for all their officers.
Harvard’s University’s Implicit Association Test, the foundation of the idea of implicit bias, shows that a majority of Americans associate African Americans more quickly with negative words than white Americans when measured in milliseconds. The theory is that these unconscious biases can cause police officers to use a disparate amount of force against African Americans or use racial profiling to stop and arrest African Americans at greater rates.
But we know from study after study that so-called “implicit bias” has only the slightest link to how a person actually behaves towards people of different races.
So it’s no surprise that a new study shows that the NYPD’s $5.5 million implicit bias training program, which began in 2018, has absolutely no impact on officer behavior.
Proponents of the training expected that New York’s police officers would interact with and arrest fewer African Americans after becoming aware of their supposed deep-seated and unconscious racism. However, stops, frisks, summonses, and arrests of African Americans in New York remained at almost the same proportion of police actions following the implementation of the implicit bias training.
“It’s fair to say that we could not detect effects of the training on officers’ enforcement behaviors,” said Robert E. Worden, the lead researcher of the study.
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The mind creates models based on past experience to make tentative assessments of the current situation. “Implicit bias” is human nature, and is built into the brain for survival. It’s a useless determiner of racism.
It is not a scam. It is political indoctrination.
The ones who need training are the ones whose behavior and attitude cause others to think ill of them.
Some of these cops need to form new Private Security companies & quit being cops.
With the way politicians are taking care of our safety, we will soon be signing up with the security companies
Just the latest lawyer-genereated hustle.
Also known as “discrimination.”
The ability to “discriminate” between good choices and bad, danger and safety, moral and immoral, is what has helped civilization to evolve.
Unfortunately, the left has demonized (intentionally, for political power) the term “discriminate.”
If you try to pet nine dobermans in a row and each of them bite you, it is our instinct to approach the 10th with caution. That is healthy, righteous “discrimination.”
If you just throw your hand out there at the 10th doberman, you not being “fair” and “unbiased.”
You are a fool.
It’s not even that. The methodology is more about the speed you process faces and words, and varies day to day for a given individual. It’s Phrenology on boxers, who may or may not have headgear on - in short, pretty complete junk.
The training is by folk who don’t even understand that much, but who make money off convincing people that racism is everywhere.
The missus went through three hours of this training for her State job a few weeks ago. Said it was a total waste of time (and money). Came down to “we all have biases—it’s natural.”
The only two recommendations for actual actions to take after the training were try to overcome your biases by watching movies and TV shows about other cultures and consider having names removed from job applications when you’re hiring.
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