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Aug. 13, 2021

Column on Gascón’s policies demonstrates the impact of implicit bias

If you read Eric Siddall’s August 11 column, paid close attention to what he was saying, how he was saying it, and did not allow yourself to get emotionally triggered, you would have noticed that throughout his article, whenever he referred to the “tough on crime policies” for which he is advocating, he used words such as “suggests,” “likely,” and “may have.”

Mark B. Baer

Mark works as a mediator and conflict resolution consultant and teaches a course on implicit bias.

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If you read Eric Siddall's August 11 column ("DA Gascón's Ideology Is Not Making Us Any Safer"), paid close attention to what he was saying, how he was saying it, and did not allow yourself to get emotionally triggered, you would have noticed that throughout his article, whenever he referred to the "tough on crime policies" for which he is advocating, he used wor...

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