Abstract

The popularity of the terms racial profiling and bias-based policing over the past few decades has provoked a great interest and curiosity among researchers and practitioners Initially studies are conducted from subaltern perspective by analyzing disparity in traffic stops recently scholars twisted towards police perspective and started striving to understand bias in broader aspects of police-public interactions In our study on 411 police officers 30 admitted the prevalence of bias in their department 40 acknowledged the prevalence in the greater state of Alabama and further analysis revealed a scarlet differences among black and white officers and officers holding non-management and management positions