Greenwald, “Targets of Discrimination: Effects of Race on
Responses to Weapons Holders,” Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology 39 (2003): 399–405; and Joshua Correll, Bernadette
Park, Charles Judd, and Bernd Wittenbrink, “The Police
Officer’s Dilemma: Using Ethnicity to Disambiguate Potentially
Hostile Individuals,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
83 (2002): 1314–1329. This study is a videogame in which
whites and blacks are presented in ambiguous positions and the
player has to decide whether to shoot or not. Go to
[http://psych.colorado.edu/%7ejcorrell/tpod.html and try it. It’s](http://psych.colorado.edu/%7ejcorrell/tpod.html and try it. It’s)
quite sobering.
On learning how to mind-read, see Nancy L. Etcoff, Paul
Ekman, et al., “Lie Detection and Language Comprehension,”
Nature 405 (May 11, 2000).
On two-person patrols, see Carlene Wilson, Research on One-
and Two-Person Patrols: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction (South
Australia: Australasian Centre for Policing Research, 1991); and
Scott H. Decker and Allen E. Wagner, “The Impact of Patrol
Staffing on Police-Citizen Injuries and Dispositions,” Journal of
Criminal Justice 10 (1982): 375–382.
CONCLUSION. LISTENING WITH YOUR EYES: THE LESSONS OF BLINK