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That favor in-groups and stigmatize out-groups - among individual law enforcement officials, influencing theirĭay-to-day actions while interacting with the public. These systemic inequities can also instill implicit biases - unconscious prejudices Here’s the Proof,” Washington Post, June 10, 2020, ington/news/opinions/wp/8/theres-overwhelming-evidence-that-the-criminal-justice-system-is-racist-heres-the-proof/. footnote2_8tm4dt9 2 Radley Balko, “There’s Overwhelming Evidence that the Criminal Person, Study Finds,” Washington Post, November 16, 2017, ington/news/wonk/wp/6/black-men-sentenced-to-more-time-for-committing-the-exact-same-crime-as-a-white-person-study-finds/.Īs a result, many have concluded that a structural or institutional bias against people ofĬolor, shaped by long-standing racial, economic, and social inequities, infects the criminal justice system. Know Their Race?” New York Times, June 12, 2019, utor-race-blind-charging.html Īnd Christopher Ingraham, “Black Men Sentenced to More Time for Committing the Exact Same Crime as a White Timothy Williams, “Black People Are Charged at a Higher Rate Than Whites. German Lopez, “There Are Huge Racial Disparities in How US Police Use Force,” Vox, November 14,Ģ018, tities/2016/8186/police-shootings-killings-racism-racial-disparities Wrongly Convicted of Murder,” Vox, March 7, 2017, ics/2017/4454/exoneration-innocence-prison-racism German Lopez and Javier Zarracina, “Study: Black People Are 7 Times More Likely than White People to Be Arrest Rates: ‘Staggering Disparity,’” USA Today,
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footnote1_sogb81w 1 Joseph Guzman, “California Police Stop Black Drivers at Higher Rates,Īnalysis Finds,” Changing America, The Hill, January 3, 2020, ging-america/respect/equality/476685-california-police-stop-black-drivers-at-higher-rates īrad Heath, “Racial Gap in U.S. Racial disparities have long pervaded every step of the criminal justice process, from police stops, searches,Īrrests, shootings and other uses of force to charging decisions, wrongful convictions, and sentences.
