Implicit Bias & Police Shootings

This:

When we look at an event like a police shooting, we invariably seek to understand it at the level of individuals. If something bad happens, we think it has to be because someone had bad intentions. Implicit bias certainly does act on individuals, but it's possible that its strongest effects are at the level of a community as a whole.

This might be why some police shootings of African-American men are carried out by African-American police officers and why some physicians who are not prescribing pain medications to people of color might themselves be people of color. Individuals can do their part to limit the effects of bias on their behavior. But if you want to fix the bias itself, well, that takes the whole village.

I suppose it sounds rather simple, but the studies he cites and the way he progresses through the role that implicit bias plays at a community-wide level were both fascinating and scary. It also gave some excellent insight into our current political climate.