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Police Reports Are Biased. What Can Journalists Do To Better Cover Policing?
The way the Minneapolis Police first described George Floyd’s murder — “Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction” — didn’t mention that an officer held his knee on George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes.
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Expert Panel: Policing and Racism, Insights from Psychological Science
On May 21, APS convened a panel of experts on policing and racism. Here is a video and transcript of that event.
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I’m Helping My Korean-American Daughter Embrace Her Identity to Counter Racism
… In the summer of 2020, the Stop A.A.P.I. Hate Youth Campaign interviewed 990 Asian-American young adults across the United States about their experiences during the pandemic, and found that one in four had reported experiencing racism
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How Schools Can Reduce Excessive Discipline of Black Students
Anne Gregory remembers the child’s fondness for the Dewey decimal system. He would write down a combination of numbers and letters on a scrap of paper and hunt down the desired book in the library.
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Bias Is Built Into Our Brains. But There’s Still Hope.
Human beings are simplifiers. We are cognitive misers, exerting the least amount of mental effort that we can in making decisions. We rely on heuristics, or mental shortcuts, to take the fastest route from A
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Is It Possible to Rid Police Officers of Bias?
The killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis three months ago and the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Wisconsin have led the US to a period of reckoning. As thousands have
