Public defenders sue Washington County over what they say is systemic courthouse racism

1.) Most judges believe the criminal justice system suffers from racism

July 14, 2020

The majority of judges believe that racism is systemic in the United States’ criminal justice system, according to the NJC’s monthly survey of its alumni.

In the survey, emailed the first week of July, 65 percent of the 634 judges who responded answered yes to the question, “Do you believe that systemic racism exists in the criminal justice system?”

“Of course it does,” commented one judge anonymously. “The data doesn’t (sic) lie. The burden on us judges is to, first, acknowledge the problem and then to work diligently to eradicate the problem.”

More than 200 judges left comments with their votes, and the consensus among the majority was that racism is mostly of the implicit or unconscious kind. Many people don’t recognize that bias exists or are unwilling to admit it, judges wrote.    

But that non-awareness is no excuse, insisted one anonymous judge.

“Any judge who is not educated on the reality of systemic racism and implicit bias and aware of the consequences of these issues should not be on the Bench,” the judge wrote.

SOURCE : https://www.judges.org/news-and-info/most-judges-believe-the-criminal-justice-system-suffers-from-racism/


2.) HOW RACISM IN THE COURTROOM PRODUCES WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AND MASS INCARCERATION

SOURCE : https://www.naacpldf.org/judicial-process-failures/


3.) REPORT
Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System

April 19, 2018

The Sentencing Project submitted a report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance

Related to: Racial Justice

SOURCE : https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/report-to-the-united-nations-on-racial-disparities-in-the-u-s-criminal-justice-system/

One should never accuse racism over assholery -- most things fall into the latter category. This seems to be one of those cases

"Public defenders sue Washington County over what they want to be systemic courthouse racism"
A very very poorly written article by Mr. Levinson without enough information and facts to support the use of the word racism. Shame on him!
It's sad our Country got to this point.