Eliminate disparate treatment of blacks in all aspects of law enforcement and criminal justice systems.
| Target Area: | Eliminating capricious racial profiling practices | Ensuring fair and equitable trials and sentences | Ensuring felony re-entry | Promoting a moratorium of the death penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Definition: | Identify and monitor practices and policies which lead to unscientific use of race and ethnicity in police and investigative actions |
Equity in arrest, interrogation, pre-sentencing, jury selection, discovery, trial, sentencing, appeal phases
Ensure that juveniles are appropriately protected and rehabilitated |
Ensure that incarcerated and released felons have access to appropriate voting, education, job training and civic participation resources | Ensure government and states place moratorium on utilization of capital punishment until race and ethnicity is no longer statistically significant in predicting sentencing and execution |
| Size of Gap: | Blacks represent 12% of total population yet represent 29.5% of those arrested | Once arrested, blacks are three times more likely to be incarcerated than whites | 54% of blacks and 50% of whites return to prison after 3 years | Of 682 defendants charged with federal crimes subject to death penalty 20% were white, 80% minority |
| Advocacy and Services: | State and local stop-and-arrest monitoring programs |
Trial monitoring (S) |
Ensuring successful felony re-entry (A/S) |
Docket monitoring (S) |
| Partnerships: | Bureau of Justice Statistics U.S. DOJ, Community Relations Services |
National Bar Association Sentencing Project |
Tides Foundation African American Ministers Leadership Council |
ACLU Northwestern Center for Wrongful Convictions |
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