Mapping California's Racial Bias in Sentencing Traffic Violations
Mapping California's Racial Bias in Sentencing Traffic Violations
- Last year, a scathing Department of Justice report revealed how the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, made money from the fines and fees they leveed disproportionately against the city’s poor, black residents. They “leeched off the black community as shamelessly as would mafia bosses,” Conor Friedersdorf wrote in The Atlantic.
- Last year, a scathing Department of Justice report revealed how the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, made money from the fines and fees they leveed disproportionately against the city’s poor, black residents. They “leeched off the black community as shamelessly as would mafia bosses,” Conor Friedersdorf wrote in The Atlantic.