Personen der politischen Rechten (aber nicht der politischen Linken oder der Mitte) schätzten die Schwere der Polizeigewalt systematisch niedriger ein, selbst wenn eindeutige Beweise für eine unverhältnismäßige Gewaltanwendung vorliegen, wenn sich der Angriff gegen eine Person mit Migrationshintergrund richtete.

Victims’ Background Shapes Perceptions of Police Violence

Police violence is judged differently depending on who is affected. When people with an immigrant background are targeted, abusive police actions are perceived as less serious, according to a new international study.

The findings show that, on average, police violence was seen as less serious when it was directed against a person named Mohamad Ahmed. Overall, respondents tended to judge the same information about police abuse less severely when it concerned people with an immigrant background. “This tendency may help explain why harsh deportation practices in Europe or the use of force by ICE officers in the United States are viewed comparatively mildly by parts of the public,” says Christoph Steinert, postdoc at the Department of Political Science at UZH, who conducted the study.

The study also examined whether, and how, assessments of the severity of police violence changed when participants were confronted with additional evidence. Respondents who identified more strongly with the political left initially rated police violence as more serious when the victim had an immigrant background and the evidence was limited. Respondents with a right-leaning political orientation, by contrast, rated the violence as more serious when the person affected did not have an immigrant background.

Participants then received additional information about video footage of the incidents that clearly indicated disproportionate use of force by police officers. Many subsequently adjusted their original assessments in light of the new information. **Among respondents on the political left and in the center, the immigrant background of the person affected ultimately no longer played a role in their assessment of the incident once the evidence was clear.**

**Participants on the political right, however, continued to rate the severity of police violence systematically lower even when the evidence was clear if the attack was directed against a person with an immigrant background**. This result points to a strong bias in this group that appears to be only minimally affected by new information.

The difference in public perception described in the study can also be observed in the United States. “In the case of the violent excesses of ICE officers, substantial differences of opinion in the assessment of state violence persisted even after video footage of the controversial operations was released,” Steinert summarizes.

For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb9501

Yeah, no need to study this. It’s literally one of the telltales in determining if someone is aligned in that direction.

That’s really interesting. I wonder if there is a causal relationship between that outcome and also being the raw clay of the new west. You know?

Conservatives are fascist. Eh, what’s new doc?

Yea they are one and the same

This is a literal bot propaganda post churning out the manufactured hate against the right. The only thing scientifically significant about this post, is how other bots and groomed liberals eat this up and regurgitate it. It is psychologically interesting as labeled because Stockholm Syndrome is real and foreign influences in the form of bots are playing daddy.

They’ve been pretty much openly racist for a while now. 

It makes sense to me because they typically view violence as a necessary evil. Rape in marriage is not real. Beating your children into submission totally fine. Police brutality isn’t a real thing. Etc…

Self deportation was always the preferred option.