People are Onions.
July 10, 2016 at 6:59 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2016 at 7:02 am by ignoramus.)
I would like to explore how people subconsciously "profile" other people and come to the conclusions they do.
EG: with respect to the last shootings, did the police officer decide the person was an imminent threat to which he had to take lethal action?
What if the same black man was in a new BMW? Or wearing a suit? Or spoke eloquently? (and innocently still went for his license in his glove box when asked).
Would he still have been shot? Was this black man also a muslim? A potential Terrorist maybe? Did the police officer assess this?
So the officer quickly decided upon profiling the situation in all aspects (demographically, economically, racially, religiously) and decided that the "8 ball" said that if anybody is going to be a risk to your life, it is this man, right here, right now, or someone in his similar position.
Is this ultimately how they teach the police to assess a situation? By number crunching the odds?
What they can never teach you is that life is made up of so many layers, that you cannot easily and accurately determine the mental motives of a person at that moment by profiling them (statistical probability).
We all do it. We all subconsciously profile. But we don't kill people based on our conclusions.
If that police officer was not a psychopath, but genuinely believed that his life was in serious risk, then something has failed him.
Either his training, or the govt, or his job (overwork, underpaid, stressed, low morale, etc)
Thoughts? Can anything be done better at a systemic level? Or do you feel what happened was a byproduct of social tensions of the day?
EG: with respect to the last shootings, did the police officer decide the person was an imminent threat to which he had to take lethal action?
What if the same black man was in a new BMW? Or wearing a suit? Or spoke eloquently? (and innocently still went for his license in his glove box when asked).
Would he still have been shot? Was this black man also a muslim? A potential Terrorist maybe? Did the police officer assess this?
So the officer quickly decided upon profiling the situation in all aspects (demographically, economically, racially, religiously) and decided that the "8 ball" said that if anybody is going to be a risk to your life, it is this man, right here, right now, or someone in his similar position.
Is this ultimately how they teach the police to assess a situation? By number crunching the odds?
What they can never teach you is that life is made up of so many layers, that you cannot easily and accurately determine the mental motives of a person at that moment by profiling them (statistical probability).
We all do it. We all subconsciously profile. But we don't kill people based on our conclusions.
If that police officer was not a psychopath, but genuinely believed that his life was in serious risk, then something has failed him.
Either his training, or the govt, or his job (overwork, underpaid, stressed, low morale, etc)
Thoughts? Can anything be done better at a systemic level? Or do you feel what happened was a byproduct of social tensions of the day?
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