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15 Apr 2018, 7:52 pm by Omar Ha-Redeye
The correct approach is to track and measure racial disparities, in child welfare agencies and society at large, simply as a tool to flag and identify where problems may exist. [read post]
31 Aug 2016, 9:15 am
Racially biased discretionary decisions will result in data points that the police will feed into predictive tools, which will in turn result in predictions that will have nested within them those original racial disparities. [read post]
21 Jun 2012, 3:43 pm by brian
Most disturbingly, because the majority of people arrested for crack offenses are African American, the 100:1 ratio resulted in vast racial disparities in the average length of sentences for comparable offenses. [read post]
Given the Biden Administration’s goal of addressing racial economic inequality, rather than move away from the use of disparate impact analysis, the CFPB under the leadership of Rohit Chopra, President Biden’s nominee for CFPB Director, can be expected to renew its use of disparate impact analysis under the ECOA and Regulation B. [read post]
2 Oct 2007, 6:47 am
Three model sites that have followed key detention reform strategies said they had reduced racial disparities, sent fewer youth to prison, increased the involvement of families and youth in their rehabilitation, and improved the juvenile justice systems' ability to make appropriate decisions about where youth should be supervised. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 7:30 am
The report discusses problems common to the eight states, including 'major racial disparities, incompetent indigent defense services and irregular clemency review processes [that make] those death penalty systems operate unfairly.' States in the study are Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. [read post]
24 May 2018, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
 Incorporating letters from everyday individuals as well as the private notes of Supreme Court justices as they deliberated, Walsh reveals how the idea of a “taxpayer” identity contributed to the contemporary crises of public education, racial disparity, and income inequality.A few blurbs:“Walsh's discovery of a popular legal consciousness that defined citizenship with reference to taxation is fresh, striking, original, and highly significant. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 8:40 am by Maya Risman
Let’s take a look at the law (Title VII) and what is required in order to prevail in a race discrimination suit for disparate treatment. [read post]
22 Feb 2023, 7:36 am
Instead of accepting existing racial disparities in the criminal justice system, they went after prosecutors and state court judges to expose how racial minorities and poor people wound up on death row more often than their white, wealthier counterparts. [read post]
22 Feb 2023, 7:36 am by Christine Corcos
Instead of accepting existing racial disparities in the criminal justice system, they went after prosecutors and state court judges to expose how racial minorities and poor people wound up on death row more often than their white, wealthier counterparts. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 5:00 pm by pkmiles@mqblaw.com
The City refused to certify the results when it discovered a racial disparity in the results. [read post]
24 Sep 2019, 7:00 am
That commission suggested that the United States respond to the crisis elevated by the Black Lives Matter movement by “undertaking studies with the goal of creating guidelines for the reparation of historic and structural discrimination” and “provide appropriate reparation to those affected by the racially disparate impact of federal, state, and local laws and policies. [read post]
14 Apr 2020, 11:32 am by Jennifer
Projects must include a focus on one or more NIH-designated populations that experience health disparities in the United States, which include racial and ethnic minority groups (Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders), less privileged socioeconomic status, sexual and gender minorities and underserved rural populations. [read post]
25 Feb 2019, 12:50 pm by Saima Sheikh
Grooming policies that appear to be facially neutral but have an adverse impact on certain protected classes may give rise to disparate impact racial discrimination claims. [read post]
8 Jul 2016, 6:53 am
“There has been a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement,” President Obama told reporters Friday morning in Warsaw....My link goes to the NYT which posits that this incident has "injected a volatile new dimension into the anguished debate over racial disparities in American criminal justice. [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 2:45 am
Specifically, the study came up with $16 trillion in lost GDP by noting four key racial gaps between African Americans and whites:$13 trillion lost in potential business revenue because of discriminatory lending to African American entrepreneurs, with an estimated 6.1 million jobs not generated as a result$2.7 trillion in income lost because of disparities in wages suffered by African Americans$218 billion lost over the past two decades because of discrimination in providing… [read post]
27 Oct 2015, 8:13 pm by Sme
., October 8, 2015) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Lowe’s on Brown’s racial discrimination claims: disparate treatment, retaliation, and hostile work environment)*Housley v. [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 7:36 pm
While not every false arrest or act of misconduct is racially motivated, no one in New York can seriously deny that our city is really multiple cities, with different rules for different people, depending on what neighborhood you're in and what you look like.We have made great strides over the past several decades in terms of acknowledging and attempting to overcome this country's long history of slavery, deeply held racism, bigotry, and generally disparate treatment of people… [read post]
16 Sep 2016, 7:30 am by The Public Employment Law Press
Disparate treatment on the basis of a foreign accent is evidence of discrimination based on race or national originJeudy v City of New York, 2016 NY Slip Op 06045, Appellate Division, First DepartmentSt. [read post]