Let’s be clear, I’m not talking about deadly force, because my experience is limited with that. I’m speaking about going “hands on,” and how it MAY also be the same for deadly force. In MY experience, those who very little history of dealing with PoC before becoming LE are move faster in going hands on.
As an example, I worked with white officer, that had lateraled from a pretty nasty place in Illinois, but he also grew up around PoCs. That dude treated everybody the same, it made no difference if you had a Ass whupping coming, it was going to happen. But he never jumped the gun early. Mainly, and we discussed this, he “wasn’t afraid” of Black people. Conversely, I was with another officer and we got a call about a “black guy trying to break into a house. We arriv, and the dude is knocking on the front door. The other officer tackled him, and crack his skull against the stoop. I was like WTF? The officer was a good officer, I respect him to this day, but this guy was from a small Indiana town his first real interactions with PoC was after he became LE.
Another thing I saw repeatedly, was how some officers are so quick to cuff, and legally they could, black kids and stick them in the back of the car for a possession charge, but white child’s would be sat on the curb, uncuffed. Things like that I took note of, because the same officers would differ in how they treated individuals. Did I think they were racist? No. I thought, “he more comfortable handling the white kids in polos and khakis, than the black kids in LeBron Jersey and sagging pants.” I understood their thinking, but it still picked at me a bit.
I would rep, but have to spread it around. In any case, thanks for sharing this, it helps me to better understand what the heck is going on.