Sentences with phrase «with racial bias»

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.

A spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg rejected the notion that the Police Department acted with racial bias in arresting people for marijuana possession.

«The misguided war on drugs is so fraught with racial bias that it has put a debilitating lifelong stigma on a large percentage of communities of color.

And it's not surprising that police would arrest the two gentlemen and hold them until 1 a.m., because police departments were created to operate in accordance with those racial biases.

Not exact matches

This pronouncement, along with Johnson's (and executive chairman Howard Schultz's) apology, meetings with community leaders, and enlisting the guidance of civil rights leaders such as former Attorney General Eric Holder and the NAACP's Sherrilyn Ifill, ensures that this incident and the specter of racial bias will remain in the public's mind beyond a few days.

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.

The curriculum will be developed with guidance from several national and local experts confronting racial bias, including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, ceo of the Anti-Defamation League.

Robinson said he and Nelson would take part in the company's racial bias training and work with former Attorney General Eric Holder, who is involved in shaping the May 29 curriculum and other long - term initiatives.

(CNN)-- Two black men whose arrest last month at a Starbucks spurred allegations of racial bias say they're happy with the settlements they've reached with the city of Philadelphia and the company — and that they hope the incident is remembered for positive outcomes such as an anticipated program...

The CEO met with the two victims and five days later, the chain announced all company - owned stores in the U.S. would close on the afternoon of May 29 for racial - bias training.

Two African - American men whose arrest at a Philadelphia Starbucks sparked protests over racial bias have reached agreements with the coffee store chain and the city, and have pledged to support a $ 200,000 effort to encourage young entrepreneurs.

Starbucks on April 17 said it would close all of its more than 8,000 company - owned stores on the afternoon of May 29 to conduct racial - bias training with nearly 175,000 employees.

With the passage in 1968 of federal legislation mandating decidedly lowered rent ceilings, court rulings limiting discretion in tenant selection, and pressure from the civil rights movement to put an end to racial bias in tenant selection and assignments, this percentage increased.

To help evangelicals grapple with the problems of implicit racial bias, Christian leaders must come to realize how deeply and personally experienced these problems are for so many in society and in the church.

cards» used to get around the inconvenience of reality by saying: the legisation was written with gender or racial bias as its «true agenda» — or, argue that homebirth is protected and not subject to legislation or government oversight because it is the religious belief of the mother that «God hath so commanded me.»

Gangi points to bias in law enforcement, citing data that shows while stop - and - frisks or arrests for certain offenses may be down, racial disparities remain, with people of color stopped or arrested far more often than white people.

Those who disagree with what she has fought for — namely equal marriage, the campaign against FGM and work to reduce gender and racial bias — are merely taking an easy shot at a political opponent.

Kids with the genetic condition called Williams syndrome have no social anxiety and are highly gregarious — and also exhibit no racial bias in standard social - bias experiments.

The researchers support police training that diminishes racial associations with crime in order to reduce racial bias.

To measure bias, the researchers used their own Implicit Racial Bias Test (or IRBT), which they've validated in a previous paper with subjects in China and Cameroon.

Researchers in Italy are reporting that subtle racial bias can interfere with this process — a finding with important implications for health care as well as social harmony.

«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.

Some viewers might grade it poorly like they did with 12 years a slave, Glory, or Selma for i.e., but if you are without racial bias, then sit back and enjoy.

And this program's essential goal is to help these young men, some from troubled backgrounds and all daily facing racial biases about black males, get in touch with the gold within them, their inner strengths, and, in their own ways, become heroes.

By the same token they find that the political manipulations where it concerns the stimulation of racial, religious and gender biases, are not matters they choose to be overly concerned with and more inter-racial, and inter-religious partnerships / marriages are being embarked on.

(Don't conflate racial and cultural diversity with poverty, discipline data, special education counts, and other common forms of implicit bias.)

If we fight awareness of our own implicit racial biases, we are doomed to continue living with them.

Setting out to determine whether there was racial or gender bias in online learning environments, researchers drew from several hundred actual student comments in massive open online courses and came up with a list of 32 generic comments that they could post in discussion forums.

In last year's round of defenses, Marwat Al - Olefi passionately explained — with persuasive statistics — what she learned in her study of racial biases in healthcare and explained why she wanted to «put all of her effort into this study» that was so motivating to her.

Speaking not only to the importance of identifying implicit bias but also to mitigating its effects, the federal guidance asserts that this training can «enhance staff awareness of their implicit or unconscious biases and the harms associated with using or failing to counter racial and ethnic stereotypes.

Start With Us shows the need for systems to combat racial bias, promote positive school climates, racial identity development, and listen more closely to students.

A recent study by Mindset Scholars David Yeager and Geoff Cohen, along with their colleagues Valerie Purdie - Vaughns and Sophia Yang - Hooper, explores how students» levels of trust in their schools evolves over time, and examines the impact of ethnic and racial biases on trust.

Then I insert a group of teachers (as Audrey described) who represent 20 % of a population and teach a disproportionate number of students who come from relatively lower socioeconomic, high racial minority, etc. backgrounds, and I assume this group is measured with negative bias on both indicators and this group has a moderate correlation between indicators of r = 0.50.

That is, only those teachers teaching classrooms inordinately stacked with students from racial minority, poor, low achieving, etc. groups might yield relatively stronger correlations between their value - added and observational scores given bias, hence, the low correlations observed may be due to bias and bias alone.

Parents may feel uncomfortable meeting with school administrators or attending schools events where other parents or even teachers harbor racial biases (Lewis, 2003).

With abundant humor, all issues are tackled but underneath the carpet is the seriousness of privilege, racial bias, rules of the old South, and small town politics.

The exhibition coincides with other shows and events that can be seen as augmenting its perspective by giving additional visibility to AIDS - affected individuals and communities that have been neglected due to racial, gender, or institutional bias.

I'll tell you what's wrong with it — in the former case, we're talking about a real and alarming trend reflecting implicit racial bias, whereas in the latter («killing spree») case, we're talking about a one - off.

Alarie: issues with quality of current decision making; mitigate heuristics into algorithms; implicit bias of judges; you control the info that you expose the algorithm to, curate the information; still problems, things may be correlated with negative things, e.g. racial implications, that we don't want related; gender, etc. other human rights type things; how to cleanse it appropriately; self driving cars just need to be better than humans; i.e. don't hold them to the standard of perfection; short term gains to be had

As such, they were «entirely congruent» with the complaint of institutional bias the Registrant sought to have heard by the Committee, which was essentially a complaint of systemic discrimination because of racial origin.

We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct.

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.

This is beyond the scope of this piece, but the legal profession also struggles with implicit bias, especially racial bias, in the court system.

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.

Legal and social science scholars have grappled with the challenge of accurately assessing remorse, but no one has analyzed whether implicit racial bias skews remorse assessments at criminal sentencing in predictable and systematically discriminatory ways.

«By repeatedly referring to me as a man despite being corrected by both the landlord's representative and myself, and with her offensive remark about my hair as a rationale for calling me a man, the judge clearly showed her racial and transphobic bias,» added Ms. Sojourner.

Our submission provided information about racial profiling and how to identify it; explained (1) why the OPP's DNA collection from migrant workers appeared to be consistent with racial profiling, and (2) how police DNA collection may disproportionately affect racialized and marginalized groups; and made recommendations on how the OPP can address racial bias in its policing.

Worker bias was repeatedly identified in the discussions with child welfare workers in this study as one of the reasons for racial disproportionality.