Speaker
Margaret Meyer
(University of Michigan)
Description
Previous research has demonstrated that police officers exhibit racially biased search practices. These models are predominately limited to measures of bias at the aggregate. These aggregated models ignore the rates of bias for individual officers working within a police department. We compare a measure of bias that accounts for the unknown contraband rate to those models that do not in individual officers. We explore the effect of individual (race, age) and systemic predictors (county level IAT scores) on these measures of bias. Interestingly greater differences in White/Black perceptions on the Weapons IAT predicts recovery rate, while greater differences in White/Black perceptions on the Race IAT predicts false alarm rates in officers.
Primary author
Margaret Meyer
(University of Michigan)
Co-author
Dr
Richard Gonzalez
(University of Michigan)
