Extensive research challenges the assertion that racial disparities in police stops and searches are adequately explained by aggregate crime rates, attributing these discrepancies to flawed methodological assumptions and self-perpetuating enforcement patterns.
A San Francisco Superior Court judge dismissed all felony drug charges against Kenneth McCurry, citing violations of California’s Racial Justice Act. The court determined that two San Francisco Police Department officers exhibited implicit racial bias during the stop, use of force, and arrest of McCurry.
The defense argued in a post-conviction hearing that the language used during the original criminal trial included implicit racial bias in violation of the California Racial Justice Act, while the prosecution maintained that their language had no bearing on the jury’s decision-making.
WOODLAND, CA – Judge Tom M. Dyer ruled here in a Yolo County Superior Court hearing Thursday…
Judge Finds Implicit Bias in Police Testimony, Grants Relief to Black Defendant SAN FRANCISCO – In a…
By Ned Meiners SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In San Francisco County Superior Court, Dept. 21, Wednesday, Public…
By David M. Greenwald A critical point that I think needs to be better understood in the…
(From Press Release)– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that her office’s first-of-its-kind “Principled Policing: Procedural…
The notion of implicit bias has been discussed, sometimes at length here on these pages. One of…
(From AG Press Release) – In the wake of recent events in California and across the nation…
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Leaving aside any racial implications involved in the incident at the high school in South Carolina, it…
Keynote Speaker Michael Roosevelt talks about unconscious bias at the SF Justice Summit in San Francisco…
Attorney General also announces statewide training on implicit bias and creation of 21st Century Policing Working Group…
Last summer, we published a speech by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi who spoke to an…