Prosecutors recently treated racial disparity research as institutionally unacceptable

Evidence

As recently as a decade ago, talking to prosecutors about racial disparities was a third rail. Even if district or state attorneys had genuine interest in understanding whether and how their line prosecutors might make racially disparate decisions, selling this message externally—but even more so internally—presented a daunting task nipping any efforts to study race in the bud. I know this from my personal experience. While at the Vera Institute of Justice, we have tried to sell the racial disparity research ideas to prosecutors for years, and the vast majority of those conversations went nowhere. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 595

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 595