Chicago PD's Big Data: Using Pseudoscience to Justify Racial Profiling

Published March 14, 2014

Chicago PD's Big Data: using pseudoscience to justify racial profiling

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We know — because of transparent, rigorous scholarship, and because of high-profile legal cases — that police intervention is itself not neutral. … Put more simply: if cops, judges and prosecutors are more likely to give white people in rich … Read more on Boing Boing

Doing time for doing drugs

Filed under: crack cocaine intervention

Former drug addict Eric Breyette answers the phone at the North Central Vermont Recovery Center, where he often does volunteer work. Breyette has been clean for more ….. The 27-year-old Johnson man said he would chew up handfuls of Percocets and … Read more on Stowe Today