POLICE CHIEFS, PUNDITS, AND REFORMERS sprang into action on cue this past summer, when Black Lives Matter protests amplified demands to abolish policing. Denouncing the killings, reformers responded with alacrity — by repeating the usual calls tochange our broken system <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/13/magazine/police-reform.html>through better implementation of training courses on implicit bias. FromMichigan <https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/06/04/mich-senate-panel-votes-require-implicit-bias-training-police/3142904001/>toTexas <https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-to-require-all-police-officers-receive-15327779.php>toThe George Floyd Justice in Policing Act <https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7120>, such courses were touted as holding the key to progress. These efforts are misguided, however. Implicit bias training doesn’t curb racism, neither in controlledlab <https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/223094021.pdf>settings <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27454041/>nor actualpolice <https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/impacts-of-implicit-bias-awareness-training-in-%2520the-nypd.pdf>departments <https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/909380525/nypd-study-implicit-bias-training-changes-minds-not-necessarily-behavior?t=1604155283674>. Still, the fantasy persists.
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