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Implicit Bias/Racial and Ethnic Inequity

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Amending Case Review Policies to Reduce Disparate Impact of Non-Safety Traffic Stops (2021)

  • January 1, 2021
  • Sarah Solano Geisler
  • Implicit Bias/Racial and Ethnic Inequity, Innovations Blog, Office-Wide Reform Strategies, Procedural Reform/Bail/Sealing
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Ingham County District Attorney’s Office (Lansing, MI)

Population: 292,406 | Number of Full-Time Prosecutors: 34 | Contact Information

In the Ingham County District Attorney’s Office, prosecutors are no longer filing cases that result from non-safety traffic stops, even where contraband may be discovered. The rationale behind this innovation is to reduce the disparate impact that such stops have on communities of color. Nationwide, drivers of color are disproportionately stopped and searched at a higher rate than similarly situated white drivers, even though searches of white drivers were more likely to result in the recovery of illegal contraband.

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