Racial Attitudes of Police Recruits at the United States Midwest Police Academy: A Second Examination

Kenneth Zimny

Minnesota State University, Mankato, United States of America

Abstract:

Schlosser (2013) discussed racial colorblindness data obtained from one police recruit academy class at the Midwest Police Academy (a pseudonym), USA. The data for this study were obtained from a different recruit class (N= 38) from the Midwest Police Academy and compared to Schlosser's. Schlosser (2013) learned that recruits enter the academy with a high level of racial colorblindness ideology. He also learned that those recruits' levels did not significantly decrease after attending academy training. I obtained similar results even after changing the cultural diversity training for the recruit class. A possible explanation could be the short amount of time allotted for this training.

Keyword:

Midwest Police Academy, Race, Racial Attitudes, Police Recruits, Training.