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Shooting bias, Wikipedia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_bias
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Shooting bias, Wikipedia
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The term shooting bias, also known as "shooter bias", is a proposed form of implicit racial bias which refers to the apparent tendency among the police to shoot black civilians more often than white civilians, even when they are unarmed.
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This source backs 6 claims across the atlas. As facts: 3 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Psychological Phenomena, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 2 general references.
  • Sources, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.

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3

Psychological Phenomena

Holds

1

Psychological Phenomena

General References

2

Psychological Phenomena

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