Mental Maps in Assessing Dangerous Situations Presented in Deadly Force Encounters by Artwohl

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After an in-depth analysis of the book excerpt, I have understood the importance of mental maps in assessing potentially dangerous situations. People can draw important visual and cognitive cues in a violent scene with vivid mental maps. Through this, police officers ensure the safety and protection of civilians. However, new and untrained police officers take a relatively long time grasping and implementing these concepts.
There is also the perception that familiarity blinds the human brain to bias. It is interesting to understand the roots of implicit bias often derived from a series of familiar issues. By nature, human beings tend to be blinded by experiences. Drawing insights from this phenomenon, it is evident that human beings become blindly incompetent to emerging dangers in a familiar environment.
Another compelling revelation is that our human brain profiles people according to their immediate behavior rather than the existing stereotypes. Although this is a highly intense debate, especially in the police force, Dr. ...