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How “Dispatch Priming” Can Drive Some Disastrous Shooting Decisions

A study of a little-explored phenomenon called “dispatch priming” reveals how erroneous information given to officers before they reach a scene can set them up unwittingly for making disastrous shooting decisions once they confront the subject of the call. Officers expecting a gun to be present, based on pre-arrival communications, are much more likely to...
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