GOFF: Our brains are conditioned to blame Black people — but we can change that
By Phillip Atiba Goff, Chicago Tribune (TNS) When I talk to officers about a police shooting, they usually ask some version of the same question: “So, what did they do?” The second half of the question — to deserve it — is assumed. Running the Center for Policing Equity means I work with departments that want to reduce bias and violence. Yet the assumption that victims, particularly Black victims,