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

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.