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Guy Miner's avatar

Interesting article, thank you.

David's avatar

Very interesting. It would be interesting equally to read non-agenda driven articles on the influence of racial bias, on this subject.

Like does a woman coming at you hysterically wearing a hijab automatically mean she’s a terrorist and therefore is fired upon or a woman in a Che Guevara tshirt or a White Pride tshirt?

No hidden agenda in my question. Interested in the subject and IF a positive correlation, how do we as military, LEO or trained civilians work to mitigate for that?

Hope the question makes sense.🤷🏼‍♂️

Pete Blair's avatar

David - I'm not sure how to respond to this. Nothing automatically means anything. There are lots of contextual factors that affect decisions. Things that seem odd in one context are normal in another.

There are some articles out there on racial bias and shootings. Some of them look at large scale data from actual shootings others look at decisions to shoot in experimental settings.

David's avatar

Thank you Pete. I was just curious. I will look for some articles as you mention. Thank you.