presentation police and the black man
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Police personality: Psychological facets of Police Versus The Black Male
HIGH-PROFILE CASES OF UNARMED BLACK MEN DYING AT THE HANDS OF THE US POLICE HAVE SPARKED PROTESTS AND CIVIL UNREST IN SEVERAL AMERICAN CITIES.
• Are Black males a target?
• Are we just paranoid to think so?
Here is where I'll attempt to dissect the main effect of the police and the black male.
LETS TRY TO FIGURE THIS OUT
• Police brutality
• Police brutality is the deliberate use of excessive force, usually physical, carried out during law enforcement activities with the population. This type of behavior also includes verbal attacks and psychological intimidation by a police officer.
- LOOK WHAT I FOUND
• 1,149 people of all ethnic groups were killed by the police in 2015. This is a problem for ALL of America
However...
• Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police in the United States than white people.
• More unarmed black people were killed by police than unarmed white people last year.
• And that's taking into consideration the fact that black people are currently 13.2% of the population whereas whites are 63%.
-THERE IS MORE...
• The youngest recorded killing of a Black male was 12 years old
• The oldest recorded killing of a black male was 65 years old.
• More than 100 of them were unarmed
• Something is wrong....
• It goes back to the question of, how does the Police perceive the black male and why?
MAIN EFFECT #1- IMPLICIT BIAS• Implicit bias describes the automatic association people make between groups of people and stereotypes
about those groups.
• Black people are often perceived as a group that poses a higher threat
• This is called threat perception failure.
• In the threat perception failure scenario, A police officer believes that the person was either armed or capable of nonhuman abilities.
• An officers then simultaneously suggest such implications by linking implicit biases to Black Men and Crime.
• studies suggest that implicit bias contributes to “shooter bias,”—the tendency for police to shoot unarmed black suspects more often than white ones—
PROOF
• Implicit association measures the extent to which two concepts are associated.
There was a psychology experiments called the weapons Id task it was found that people were faster to connect a gun to a black person rather than a phone or a tool of some sort.
This is connected to a shooter task where reaction times of a shooter is twice as fast when a black male has been perceived to have had a weapon in comparison to a white male who has been perceived to have a weapon.
MAIN EFFECT #2 FEAR
• Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.
• In certain situations police officers are ambiently angry and afraid for their lives at every turn.
• "Perceived threats"
• The people they are supposed to be serving are afraid and defensive about the possibility of being hassled by an intimidated police officer and herded off to jail for no reason.
• It’s a vicious cycle
• Everyone is inherently, directly or indirectly afraid of each other.
MAIN EFFECT #3STEREOTYPING• Stereotyping is Cognitive beliefs that associate people with certain traits. Social
categorization, ingroup vs outgroup, (Blue "in group". Blacks "outgroup")
• Outgroup homogeneity- is where perceivers "police" assume that there is a greater similarity among outgroup "blacks" vs the in-group.
E.g. All black men are the same.
The police often apply something called the illusory correlation, that is when they see a relationship between variables even when they are not correlated.
E.g. Black man driving a nice car, he must have stolen it.
AMERICA THE GREAT...
• In our country, Black men are disproportionately represented amongst the people who commit street crime.
• How can this great nation justify the senseless destruction of black males in the United States--through police violence, through state sanctioned and disproportionate imposition of the death penalty?
• How can America, justify the fact that black people make up 44 percent of youth prison inmates in the United States whereas black people make up about 13.2 percent of the population?
• I am reminded that this society is failing black men for many possible reasons...
MAIN EFFECT #4REASONS BEING...• To maintain the status quo of the superiority complex of the white male blatantly
displayed in America.
• To continue institutional racism and an inequitable distribution of resources leading to their racial and socioeconomic marginalization. .
• And, to ignore the fact that prejudiced powerful Whites use the mainstream corporate media to portray Black and Brown people as inferior, stupid, savage, uncivilized, and lazy, so that they could justify their monopolization of the wealth of the country.
STAY FOCUSED
• Many people will disagree with the previous stated agenda by saying blacks murder fellow black people the most.
• But the focus here is that those who protect people should not become threats to the lives of those they are meant to be protecting.
- OFF DUTY POLICE OFFICERS, TRUE COLORS ON BLUE MEDIA,
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Hateful views typed out on social media actually link back to real people out in the real world. Our Law enforcement
officers, judges and lawyers, those who express conscious hateful prejudices behind the 140 character boxes then
are expected to serve and protect....Everyone? Why would they?
MAIN EFFECT #5COLOR CODED
America will not be a post-racial society until injustice is no longer color-coded
" THERE ARE SOCIOCULTURAL PHENOMENA THAT PREVENT A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF SOCIETAL PARTICIPANTS FROM DEVELOPING AND USING THEIR FULL POTENTIAL; THERE ARE DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN WHAT A COUNTRY SUCH AS THE US IS SUPPOSED TO STAND FOR "EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY, JUSTICE, DEMOCRACY" AND THE ACTUAL CONDITIONS IN WHICH MANY OF ITS PEOPLE LIVE.."
(Eitzen 1984)
