Specifically, they added, regional implicit biases toward black people, or the implicit stereotypical association between black people and weapons, predicted African Americans being more likely to be killed by police. Where these biases were stronger, African-Americans were more likely to be killed by police.
Which makes sense. These are cops POD. I'd be willing to bet that their EXPERIENCE teaches them to be more leery of some people, than other people. Wouldn't you think? Is that solely the fault of the police? Maybe the entire white community? Or could it be more the results of personal experiences, or the stories other cops tell about their experiences?
You don't know, and it sounds like, nor do these researchers.
Look POD, in this case, you more than likely have a good point. Blacks and other visible minorities do seem to get shot more than white guys. But maybe that has allot to do with a cop's desire to go home to his wife and kids at the end of a shift, instead of decorating a slab in the morgue?
One of my kids has been mugged twice now by a gang of black kids from out of our community. The second time, the cops brought my son home in an ambulance. He didn't want to give them his cell phone, so they bashed his head into a cement curb.
The cops caught the kids, but they were out that very day. One cop told me that they laugh at the arresting officers in the cop-shop, when they get released.
Sometimes POD, we get what we pay for. people LEARN to be afraid of black people.
And that probably leads them to open fire, perhaps more easily than they might when dealing with a person who does not represent getting their head bashed into a curb, to them.