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   From: JW@jw.com   
      
   On 7/18/2021 6:55 AM, BeamMeUpScotty wrote:   
   > On 7/17/21 8:37 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   >> In previous research published in the Proceedings of the National   
   >> Academy of Sciences, Camp and his colleagues analyzed more than 100   
   >> hours of police body-cam footage and concluded that officers’ language   
   >> was less respectful toward Black residents than their white peers.   
   >>   
   >> Compared with white residents, Black community members were 57% less   
   >> likely to hear the officer use words such as “sir,” “ma’am” and   
   “thank   
   >> you” and 61% more likely to hear words such as “dude” and “bro”   
   and   
   >> commands such as “hands on the wheel.”   
   >>   
   >> For the new paper, Camp and his colleagues focused not on what officers   
   >> said but on how they said it.   
   >>   
   >> The scientists analyzed hundreds of audio clips — each roughly 10   
   >> seconds long — from routine traffic stops of Black or white men. The   
   >> researchers filtered out the high frequencies of the sound clips, which   
   >> essentially rendered the clips unintelligible but left the tone of voice   
   >> intact. They also masked the drivers’ voices with “brown noise,” so   
   that   
   >> anyone hearing the clip would not be able to guess the motorists’ race.   
   >>   
   >> The researchers then asked more than 400 people — a diverse group of   
   >> white, Latino, Asian and Black volunteers — to listen to the clips and   
   >> rate the officers’ tone of voice.   
   >>   
   >> Across the board, clips of officers speaking to Black men got lower   
   >> marks for friendliness, respectfulness and ease than those of officers   
   >> speaking to white men — even though the listeners were not aware of the   
   >> drivers’ race.   
   >>   
   >> https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-07-16/cops-treat-b   
   ack-and-white-men-differently-you-can-hear-it-in-their-tone-of-voice   
   >>   
   >> That isn't just systemic racism, it's also personal racism.   
   >   
   > Perhaps the police sense the HATE that Democrats project in their   
   > personality, and they're simply reciprocating with caution and force as   
   > everyone does to people that are contemptuous towards them.   
      
   Perhaps a 10-second clip from a two minute encounter isn't a fair   
   sample of the conversation as a whole.  Or perhaps the author is   
   correct, but you can't know that from the results as described.   
   >   
      
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