The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/race-and-equity/page/2/)
In a test that could cast doubt on the integrity of the official record of court proceedings, researchers found that court reporters incorrectly transcribed African-American dialect 40 percent of the time.
The Metropolitan Division of Los Angeles Police Department stops African American drivers at a rate more than five times their share of the city’s population, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis.
A civil-rights leader complains that William Barr, President Trump’s attorney general nominee, was a “general in the war on crime and drugs that was rooted in racism.” Barr agreed to a request by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) to study the issue.
Better racial representation in our police forces is important, but a would-be officer’s residence can also have a major impact on making on improving a department’s legitimacy in a community, argue two researchers.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pardon of four young black men wrongly accused in 1949 of raping a white woman recalls the insidious role played by the media at the time.
Researchers studying nearly 1,700 fatal interactions with police between 2013 and 2015 concluded that desegregation dramatically reduces the risks of black males being killed by police officers. Higher levels of segregation increased the odds for Hispanic males.
Increasing family and community engagement with probation authorities, and addressing the system’s racial disparities are critical to keeping young people from becoming repeat offenders, according to an Urban Institute study of reforms in Ohio and Washington State.
In a 1968 murder case, the defendant claimed systemic racism and poverty were mitigating circumstances in his crime. An appeals court rejected the argument, but is the relationship between the “environment” and criminal behavior worth examining today?
The Trump administration signaled its hostility to the “disparate impact” approach to civil rights enforcement in its recent school safety report. The Justice Department is studying a similar, governmentwide shift. A civil rights advocate calls disparate impact a “bedrock principle.”
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts found that African-American women filed 27 percent of complaints about sexual harassment between 2012-2016, even though they account for just 7 percent of the labor force.