Metro News reported on a UBC study showing that eyewitness accounts are influenced by the types of crime.

“We found that if we expose eyewitnesses to a stereotypically ‘black crime,’ they actually remember the perpetrator of that crime as being more black than they are in reality,” said Paul Davies, UBCO psychology professor and lead author of the study. “The crime that they’re accused of committing, the race of the perpetrator, the race of the witness— they all interact and can impact eyewitness testimony.”