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Police Prejudice is Real

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If this surprises you, it means you are a fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene or maybe TheDonald.

Of what am I talking?   A study completed by Drs. Nicholas Camp (Michigan),  Rob Voigt (Northwestern), with  Dan Jurafsky and Jennifer Eberhardt (both from Stanford), published as “The Thin Blue Waveform: Racial Disparities in Officer Prosody Undermine Institutional Trust in the Police”, in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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The Facts Don’t Matter!

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I have been ranting about the claims that talking on the phone while driving is dangerous- but talking to your fellow passengers is not.  That is such malarkey- since these actions all involve the same parts of our brain.  Now, texting while driving- that is very different.  Because the driver is NOT looking at the road, but at his/her cell phone…

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It was 40 years ago today… (No, it’s not Billy Shears!)

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A milestone- I thought.  It was 40 years ago today.  The day for which I had longed, cajoled, suffered injuries, blockaded federal and college buildings.  The ending of the Vietnam “War”.  You know, one of the first wars we fought that were never declared.

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The Law is NOT Science

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I have written about the advances in neuroscience- and the fact that many of these advances are being turned towards law enforcement.  After all, if the brain can tell (give away?) our motivations and ideas (how the brain affects behavior)- it’s not surprising that police and the courts would find these items of great interest (since their function is to attempt to regulate behavior).

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