Louisville Metro leadership's failure to adapt to changing times is a good example of "confirmation bias" in action. That's the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs, giving less consideration to alternative possibilities. Conrad climbed the ladder to Chief pushing community policing and avoiding the kinds of proactive enforcement that work but make community activists mad. He was hired by Fischer for that reason because
Louisville Metro leadership's failure to adapt to changing times is a good example of "confirmation bias" in action. That's the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs, giving less consideration to alternative possibilities. Conrad climbed the ladder to Chief pushing community policing and avoiding the kinds of proactive enforcement that work but make community activists mad. He was hired by Fischer for that reason because