LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – Todd Shaw, the former assistant police chief of the city of Prospect, Kentucky, resigned November 20, 2017, after more than 20 years on the job. Shaw quit after Prospect’s Chief of Police Jeff Sherrard confronted him with copies of Facebook messages sent to a Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) recruit.
An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Ariz.
The racial bias that ProPublica found in a formula used by courts and parole boards to forecast future criminal behavior arises inevitably from the test’s design, according to new research.
A Stanford research study about police bias in traffic stops is getting increasing buzz.
Professor Sharad Goel along with graduate students Camelia Simoiu and Sam Corbett-Davies analyzed data from 9.5 million traffic stops from 287 police departments in North Carolina in their article Testing for Racial Discriminationin Police Searches of Motor Vehicles (pdf).
Sharad Goel from 5harad.com
