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Tech can sift through video evidence ... but can it avoid bias?

by Molly Wood

Jan 7, 2019

Forensic video evidence is no smoking gun.

Police and private security personnel monitor security cameras at the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative on April 23, 2013 in New York City.

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Starbucks managers will have to take unconscious bias training. Does it actually work?

by David Brancaccio

Apr 17, 2018

Last week, a manager from a Starbucks in Philadelphia called the police on two black men who had been waiting for a friend.

Protester Michelle Brown, 50, (L) demonstrates outside a Center City Starbucks on Sunday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Police arrested two black men who were waiting inside the Center City Starbucks, which prompted an apology from the company's CEO.

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