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Well now, this is really interesting and right in my own back yard too.
The Denver Police Department recently conducted a study of racial bias in the force with the help of a flash-based computer game. The general idea was to determine if officers were more likely to fire on armed people who were black or white.
The game is really just a series of slides that show real Denver backdrops and then pop a white or black person up on the picture armed with either a gun or perhaps a cell phone or, I don't know, a can of soda.
The game gives you five points for holstering your gun on an unarmed man, 10 for shooting an armed man, subtracts 20 for shooting an unarmed man and subtracts 40 for being shot.
The study's results, and a link to the game, can be found over on the Water Cooler Games site. What I don't understand is why the police department didn't use their shoot/don't shoot training software for this instead. The software runs in a darkened room and uses a gun that feels like a real gun. Not only do you have to make the decision on whether not to shoot, you have to hit the person. I actually had a chance to check this out years ago and did quite well until I got to a scenario where a man was holding a child hostage. Kinda hard to make decisions like that on the fly.
Denver Police Test Racial Bias with Videogame [Water Cooler Games]
