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New York City lawmakers say racial disparities persist in the NYPD's marijuana policy that went into effect in 2014.
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Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said the racial disparity in school suspensions wasn't a reflection of problems in our society, but the result of «racial discrimination» in our schools.
She said racial disparity is still a major problem in the Massachusetts criminal justice system.
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Faced with fresh evidence of the racial disparity in marijuana enforcement across New York City, Manhattan's district attorney said he will largely stop prosecuting people for possessing or smoking marijuana.
NEW YORK (AP)-- Faced with fresh evidence of the racial disparity in marijuana enforcement across New York City, Manhattan's district attorney said Tuesday he will largely stop prosecuting people for possessing or smoking marijuana.
At an appearance in Brooklyn this weekend, Sanders said: «We owe a debt of gratitude to the Black Lives Matter movement,» which he said had «raised the consciousness» of the racial disparity within in the criminal justice system.
«We are all shocked that the governor vetoed a bill that would have reduced racial disparities in the criminal justice system, helped ensure equal access to justice for all New Yorkers, provided improved public defense programs for those who can not afford an attorney, and much - needed mandate relief for counties,» Gradess said.
The Police Department said it will review how it approaches the drug after criticism over continuing racial disparities in arrests.
«I am disappointed that there is racial disparity in arrests, as I have been and was in the leadership on stop - and - frisk, and I want to see it corrected,» Sharpton said, responding to a reporter's question about de Blasio's attitude toward the issue.
«My ideological critique is that some of these proposals fail to resolve the underlying problem of racial disparity and unlawful searches,» said Bronx City Councilman Ritchie Torres one of the sponsors of the recently introduced «Right to Know Act.»
But she cast the issue mostly as a racial disparity one, saying the vast majority of people arrested for marijuana are blacks or Latinos.
«Although trends over time show that the racial disparity in cervical cancer mortality is closing, these data emphasize that it should remain a priority area,» said Dr. Rositch.
«We would expect to see less disparity in hypertension rates across racial groups due to equal access to health care and equitable social and economic status; however, black, non-Hispanic service members remained disproportionately affected,» said Army Colonel William Corr, the deputy director of AFHSC's division of Epidemiology and Analysis.
«Oft - assumed reasons for racial obesity disparities may not be only cause, study says.»
There is no silver bullet to fix some of the racial and ethnic disparities seen in STEM education, Alvarado said.
They say efforts to improve diet and reduce energy intake from restaurant sources could actually help to reduce racial and socio - economic disparities in Americans» diets.
«This continuing gap is disappointing because improving racial and ethnic disparities in access was a key objective of the reform,» said Amresh Hanchate, PhD, of the section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Medicine, and a study co-author.
«Research is now showing that many health effects once attributed to racial differences are actually tied to educational and economic disparities,» she says.
«Delaying disease onset is the most critical component to reducing racial disparities in Alzheimer's disease,» said Barnes.
«Other studies have looked at racial disparities in treatment and still others have focused on racial differences in survival rates of cancer patients, but our research attempted to go further by demonstrating the impact of race - based inequalities in cancer treatment on survival rates of black colorectal cancer patients,» said James D. Murphy, MD, MS, assistant professor and chief of the Radiation Oncology Gastrointestinal Tumor Service at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
«Hospitals and policy makers should consider nondemographic factors to help reduce racial and ethnic breastfeeding disparities,» Ramey said.
«I'd like to see NIH go to a three - pronged standard [that includes socioeconomic factors],» she says, «so long as MARC students still demonstrate a desire to look at the racial disparities in our health care system.»
Ford, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and an investigator at the Neuroscience Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and interests.
«Our results suggest that hospitals and policy makers should limit in - hospital formula introduction and consider family history and demographics to reduce racial and ethnic breastfeeding disparities,» said Madeleine Shalowitz, MD, a Director at NorthShore University HealthSystem Research Institute and co - investigator on the study.
«These findings suggest that intersections between law enforcement and trauma care activities are varied, but carry the potential to affect outcomes, alter trust in the health care system, and affect racial disparities in injury recovery,» said Jacoby.
The researchers say their findings, published in the October / December 2015 issue of the journal Family & Community Health, indicate that differences in social and living environments may help to explain racial disparities that exist nationally for habits and lifestyle choices that play a key role in the health of U.S. men.
While PrEP is available in the United States, Beyrer says it is accessible only when people have health insurance to pay for it, and there are real racial and economic disparities when it comes to who actually gets it.
«Understanding racial differences in behaviors that affect men's health is an important step toward reducing health disparities among U.S. men,» says study lead author Roland J. Thorpe Jr., PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Program for Men's Health Research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparitiesdisparities among U.S. men,» says study lead author Roland J. Thorpe Jr., PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Program for Men's Health Research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health DisparitiesDisparities Solutions.
Furthermore, the three, sex - specific cancers have been fingered in other racial - disparity studies, he says.
Helping women prevent and survive heart attacks through increased research and improving ethnic and racial disparities in prevention and treatment is a public health priority,» she said.
«While racial disparities in surgical outcomes have been reported in adult health care, less is known about possible disparities in pediatric surgery,» said first author David I. Chu, M.D., a fellow in Pediatric Urology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
«Given the racial and ethnic disparities, targeted, culturally appropriate interventions in breast cancer screening and care have the potential to reduce the disparities and close the existing survival gaps,» Chen said.
Experts say that racial disparities have long been known to exist in who actually develops risk factors for the condition, with African Americans nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes and more than a third as likely to have high blood pressure than Caucasian Americans.
«Cancer is a major burden for all racial and ethnic groups in San Francisco, but the impact falls disproportionately upon specific racial and socioeconomic groups, causing persistent disparities,» said first author Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD, professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and associate director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
«A doctor with high racial bias may understand the pain of other - race patients in a more detached or disembodied manner and, in principle, this may contribute to the causes of racial disparities in healthcare,» Avenanti says.
In 2015, only 29 % said they favored a policy that prevented racial disparities in disciplinary policy, while 71 % were opposed.
«This is the history Mississippi wants to walk away from,» said Alvin O. Chambliss Jr., the lawyer for a group of black residents who sued the state in 1975 over racial disparities in its public colleges and universities.
State Study Cites Racial, Income Disparities in Special Education The Herald News, April 24, 2012» «Poor kids are being served in special education at relatively high numbers, almost at about twice the rate you would expect in the population in general,» said Thomas Hehir, a Harvard School of Education professor and former director of special education programs for the U.S. Education Department.»
As Arne Duncan said at the time, «racial discrimination is a major problem today,» and disparities are «not caused by differences in children.»
The report found significant racial and ethnic disparities in child well - being, said Alisa Jenny, who worked on the report.
Recognizing that disparities in disciplinary rates may be caused by a range of factors, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice said in a joint letter that these differences can not be explained by more frequent or more serious behavior by students of color, but rather, «schools may be engaging in racial discrimination that violates the federal civil rights law.»
What I found was a marked disparity in the quality of public education from one district on Long Island to the next, disparities that were largely contingent upon the racial and socio - economic demographics of the constituents within a said district.
More than three quarters — 76 % — of teachers surveyed by a chapter of Educators for Excellence said that they wanted more training so that they would not contribute to racial disparities in discipline.
Bender argued that targeted charter schools can help students of color who have been failed by the public school system, while Slekar said that school choice undermines the effectiveness of public schools, including their ability to address racial disparities.
Danner says, «Racial and socio - economic disparity of educational outcomes and opportunities remain our country's greatest injustice.
Leon Smith, director of the racial justice project for the Center for Children's Advocacy in Hartford, said the charter schools» numbers and the racial disparity in sanctioning students are both disturbing.
Starting in prekindergarten, black boys and girls were disciplined at school far more than their white peers in 2013 - 2014, according to a government analysis of data that said implicit racial bias was the likely cause of these continuing disparities.
There were over 685,724 stop and frisk interactions in 2011, and the NYCLU says the numbers show a stark racial disparity in police behavior.
«There is a very real danger that these tools and the appeal of «objective risk scores» will silently codify racial disparities in bail determinations under a veneer of scientific rigor,» says Scott Levy, director of the Fundamental Fairness Project at the Bronx Defenders, a legal aid organization.
«Some of the biggest (racial) disparities are in poverty,» McCarthy said.