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CRiSM Seminar

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Location: A1.01
Professor Jay Kadane, Carnegie Mellon University
Driving While Black: Statisticians Measure Discriminatory Law Enforcement (joint work with John Lamberth)
The US Constitution guarantees "equal protection under the law" regardless of race, but sometimes law enforcement practices have failed to adhere to this standard.In the 1990's, a suit was brought alleging that the New Jersey State Police were stopping Blacks at disproportionately high rates in the southern end of the New Jersey Turnpike. In this talk I
* review the evidence in that case, the decision, and its immediate aftermath
* discuss criticisms of that decision
* examine new evidence that rebuts those criticisms
* comment on the extent to which the Constitutional standard is now being met.

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