“The four BIAs in the area support it. Operational benefits include accessibility and a place for police officers to come and go when they're working. Everyone's clamoring for more police presence.” SupportFourBenefitsAreasPoliceOfficersBiasComes And GoesPolice OfficerAccessibility Author:Julian Fantino
“I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in America jump to conclusions about each other.” ThinkingProblemAmericaPoliceConclusionBiasImplicit Author:Hillary Clinton
“When it comes to policing, since it can have literally fatal consequences, I have said, in my first budget, we would put money into that budget to help us deal with implicit bias by retraining a lot of our police officers.” FirstsSaidHelpingDealsConsequencePoliceBudgetsOfficersBiasPolice OfficerImplicit Author:Hillary Clinton
“When African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias?” ActionInvolvedPoliceClintonAfrican AmericanShootingOfficersBiasInvolvingPolice OfficerImplicit Author:Mike Pence
“Yet far from putting any meaningful constraints on law enforcement in this war, the U.S. Supreme Court has given the police license to stop and search just about anyone, in any public place, without a shred of evidence of criminal activity, and it has also closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the judicial process from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing.” WarLawGivenProcessDoorsStageActivityEvidenceClaimsPoliceCourtCriminalsMeaningfulSupremeBiasSupreme CourtLaw EnforcementEnforcementLicenseConstraintsJudicialBargainingCourthousesRacial Bias Author:Michelle Alexander
“330,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police see Trump's commitment to law and order. But they also - they also hear the bad mouthing, the bad mouthing that comes from people that seize upon tragedy in the wake of police action shootings as - as a reason to - to use a broad brush to accuse law enforcement of - of implicit bias or institutional racism. And that really has got to stop.” PeopleReasonActionRacismCommitmentTragedyPoliceBiasLaw EnforcementLaw And Order Author:Mike Pence
“I just think what we ought to do is we ought to stop seizing one moments of tragedy. We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action. But, you know, enough of this seeking every opportunity to demean law enforcement broadly by making the accusation of implicit bias every time tragedy occurs.” ThinkingEnoughMomentsActionOpportunityLossTragedyPoliceBiasLaw EnforcementAccusation Author:Mike Pence
“I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.” LastsTypePoliceMeetingsReportsArticlesBiasHeadlinesParagraphSingaporeProminentSpasEmpresses Book:The Singapore Story (Student Edition): Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew Source: The Singapore Story (Student Edition): Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
“Only a few days after my encounter with the police, two patrolmen tackled Alton Sterling onto a car, then pinned him down on the ground and shot him in the chest while he was selling CDs in front of a convenience store, seventy-five miles up the road in Baton Rouge. A day after that, Philando Castile was shot in the passenger seat of his car during a police traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, as his girlfriend recorded the aftermath via Facebook Live. Then, the day after Castile was killed, five policemen were shot dead by a sniper in Dallas. It felt as if the world was subsumed by cascades of unceasing despair. I mourned for the family and friends of Sterling and Castille. I felt deep sympathy for the families of the policemen who died. I also felt a real fear that, as a result of what took place in Dallas, law enforcement would become more deeply entrenched in their biases against black men, leading to the possibility of even more violence. The stream of names of those who have been killed at the hands of the police feels endless, and I become overwhelmed when I consider all the names we do not know—all of those who lost their lives and had no camera there to capture it, nothing to corroborate police reports that named them as threats. Closed cases. I watch the collective mourning transpire across my social-media feeds. I watch as people declare that they cannot get out of bed, cannot bear to go to work, cannot function as a human being is meant to function. This sense of anxiety is something I have become unsettlingly accustomed to. The familiar knot in my stomach. The tightness in my chest. But becoming accustomed to something does not mean that it does not take a toll. Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.” GriefRaceDespairAnxietyRacismPoliceMourningSympathyBiasLaw EnforcementAfrican AmericansBlack Lives MatterRace RelationsPolicemenGunsWhitesShootings Author:Clint Smith