Sentences with phrase «racial bias when»

«In jury selection, «race - neutral» isn't: New rules are needed to keep prosecutors from concealing racial bias when choosing jurors.»

In 2014 the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice sent a joint letter to every school district in the country, urging local officials to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling students.

In January 2014, the Obama administration's Department of Justice and Department of Education jointly sent each school district a «Dear Colleague» letter urging local officials to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling students.

A new analysis challenges a troubling 2011 study that suggested that black researchers encounter racial bias when they seek funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

BW is also currently working on a story on racial bias when it comes to DA Difiore's office prosecuting white men vs men of color for domestic violence in Westchester County.

Not exact matches

I was surprised when I learned that Kevin Johnson, CEO of America's most popular coffee brand Starbucks, decided to close more than half of the company's U.S. stores on May 29 to conduct racial bias training for staff, following the uproar over two black men — Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson — being arrested at a Philadelphia location.

Stubbs: «We see that death penalty trials are infected from the beginning to the end w / racial bias both in who is charged we know overwhelmingly that prosecutors are far more likely to seek the death penalty when the victim is white.

The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced Thursday that it had reached a voluntary agreement with Airbnb to monitor whether some hosts on the platform act with racial or other forms of bias when choosing guests.

Eight days after the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the arrests of two African - American men at a Philadelphia Starbucks for trespassing when they opted not to order anything has catapulted the issue of racial bias into the national spotlight.

Since Ferguson, 24 states have passed at least 40 new measures addressing such things as officer - worn cameras, training about racial bias, independent investigations when police use force and new limits on the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies.

Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10

But when they're wrong, they reveal a similar racial bias.

But new research suggests that people's racial biases make them more likely to leave money on the table when a windfall is not split evenly between groups.

Why do people have so clear racial biases as well as preferences when it comes to dating Asian men and Black Women?

My «fairest» interpretation of the current albeit controversial research surrounding this particular issue is that bias does not exist across teacher - level estimates, but it certainly occurs when teachers are non-randomly assigned highly homogenous sets of students who are gifted, who are English Language Learners (ELLs), who are enrolled in special education programs, who disproportionately represent racial minority groups, who disproportionately come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and who have been retained in grade prior.

Usually, when people outside of the legal profession talk about the legal system being imperfect, it is about a criminal justice system that is so suffused with racial bias as to be untenable.

When the defense has a parade of witnesses supporting the defendant's lack of racial bias, and the prosecution has no evidence of animus, it seems quite clear that the charge was never supported.

One can speculate about the role of racial bias and stereotypes in the jury's reasoning, and whether it simply refused to apply the law, preferring instead the position that killing is justified when people come on your property and make you afraid — i.e., that they refused to apply the law not as the conscience of their community, but because they disagreed with applying it here.

The ten original essays in When Law Fails view wrongful convictions not as random mistakes but as organic outcomes of a misshaped larger system that is rife with faulty eyewitness identifications, false confessions, biased juries, and racial discrimination.

There is absolutely no reason for this, and it's opening the employer up to allegations of racial discrimination — as well as making it more likely that it really will introduce unconscious bias into the initial sceening, because that's a real thing even in well - intentioned people and even when we don't realize it.