and replacing it with this:

Appreciated the chance to share @arajo-eunkyung.bsky.social and I's work on Streetview Sampling on 🎃! The 📸🚘 costume is only for today, but the methods paper and tools are open access: guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Me shaking my head in Orioles

We should make police interactions more respectful. However, enforcement is an investigatory tool, it undermines these goals. Interactions can’t build trust if they start with a lie. As traffic stops become the vehicle for investigation and immigration enforcement, the costs will be severe. (7/7)

Because they entail so much choice, however, police departments can rein in discretionary stops. We found one directive in which merely advised officers to curtail equipment stops reduced racial gaps in stop rates, by bringing down the high number of equipment stops of Black drivers (6/7)

This context means different things to Black and White drivers. We asked DMV customers to listen to recordings of equipment + moving stops and report their trust in the officer. White participants were generally trusting, but Black customers were skeptical of officers in high-discretion stops. (5/7)

Looking across a range of agencies, we find that stops of Black drivers are much more likely to be for minor offenses relative to Whites, particularly in urban police departments. Statewide agencies, focus on enforcement rather than investigation, show no disparities in discretionary context (4/7)

ICE arrested a dad dropping off his kid at my son's school today. Elementary school. What a fucking world.

Don’t think I will.

Thanks @jimmycalanchini.bsky.social and @maddblackprof.bsky.social for organizing the special issue of Social Cognition, which is a must-read. Also thanks to my in-laws for walking my dog Eddie, also visible on Street View

Some have used screenshots as stimuli. Using the developer tools, you can automate this process. We walk you through how to sample points and pull streetscapes. You can pick random points on a map, or partition space into neighborhoods, census tracts, or other regions.

New from @ara-eunkyung.bsky.social + me: social psychologists are often interested in space, but have to choose between abstractions at high levels of geography or images taken with limited geographic scope. We identify a tool to sample space at scale: mapping platforms, such as Google Street View.

Going to #spsp2025? Interested in what psychology can tell us about what works (or doesn't) to change policing? Join me @andreadittmann.bsky.social @calvinklai.bsky.social @spruill.bsky.social & Kyle Dobson very early next Saturday to find out.

We also need to ask how footage is governed, analyzed and used. Agencies may use language as a shallow metric, opening the door to their manipulation. Analysts may use opaque models to capture social impressions of speech. And platforms may operate as gatekeepers rather than facilitators. (4/5)

And here are the model coefficients from our work, defined by (undergraduate) lay participants:

E.g. here are the metrics Truleo, one of the larger analytics firms, uses to operationalize professionalism, which largely puts it on police supervisors: