Ep. 4 - Racial Disparity

Links



New Zealand bans suspect’s manifesto (The Detroit News)




The New Jim Crowe, by Michelle Alexander (Wikipedia)




Jack Maple – creator of CompStat methodology that reduced
crime in NYC but ultimately lead to arrest quotas (Wikipedia)




North Carolina Jury Sunshine Project findings (Wake Forest
University)


Women and men serve on felony trial juries at about the same
rate.

Prosecutors remove twice as many potential black jurors at
trial as white jurors (20 percent of available black jurors
compared with 10 percent of available white jurors).

Judges remove 14 percent of available black jurors compared
with 10 percent of available white jurors.

Defense attorneys remove white jurors more often: they
exclude 22 percent of the available white jurors versus 10
percent of the available black jurors.

The differences in removal rates are different for urban and
rural districts, with racial disparities larger on average in
urban districts.

The differences in removal rates are different from some
urban districts than for other urban districts: the largest
disparities occur in Charlotte, Durham, and Winston-Salem, while
smaller disparities happen in Fayetteville, Greensboro, and
Raleigh.

Juries with more black males tend to acquit the defendant
more often, all other things being equal.

Juries with more white males tend to convict the defendant
more often, all other things being equal.

Juries with more black females tend to acquit more often, but
only slightly; juries with more white females do not tend to
acquit or convict any more often than the overall pool of trials.



John Engler, 46th Governor of Michigan, from 1991 to 2003
(Wikipedia)




First Step Act (Wikipedia)




Criminal Conviction of Charles Kushner (Wikipedia)




Assessment platforms:


Northpointe’s COMPAS (Equivalent)

Ohio Risk Assessment System (NICIC)

Level of Service Inventory - Revised (MHS)