Jewish groups at the University of California, Berkeley are suing the college, claiming it has become a hotbed of “unchecked”…
Browsing: Race and Equity
Multiple Sacramento police officers mistook an 8-year-old boy for a juvenile with two felony warrants, pulling him and his pregnant…
A Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice study found that Tallahassee and Leon County are experiencing a…
A Louisiana judge is allowing the most serious charge of negligent homicide to go forward against one of the troopers…
Critics claim that the technology, which allows law enforcement agencies to feed images from video surveillance into software that can search government databases or social media for a possible match, results in a higher rate of misidentification of people of color and some states and cities have limited its use.
How do we clear our vision? In this essay for our Viewpoints series, experts in sociology and criminal justice discuss how police perceptions of threat and commensurate force can be distorted by racism.
The announcement follows a Marshall Project-Cleveland investigation that discovered that 60 percent or more of drivers cited for traffic violations in the Ohio village of Bratenahl since 2020 were Black.
Over the past two decades, while states around the country have done the opposite, Tennessee has made it more difficult for residents convicted of felonies to get their right to vote back, according to an analysis by The Sentencing Project.
Researchers found the problem is more pronounced in places with higher shares of Republican voters or non-Black residents, though the study was not designed to explore the causes.
The Court is currently hearing challenges to “affirmative action” admissions policies at colleges and universities, with oral arguments starting Monday. But the treatment of race runs through other cases coming before the justices this term too.