Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida, discusses the group’s report “Unequal Treatment: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Miami-Dade’s Criminal Justice System” at a press conference in Miami on July 19, 2018. Photo: Raychel Lean/ALM
A new report released Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union makes clear findings of racial biases at all levels of the Miami-Dade justice system. But South Florida attorneys are divided on the data and whether nonlawyers understand legal nuances enough for a comprehensive picture.
The ACLU and its Greater Miami chapter unveiled the findings of a study that revealed widespread racial and ethnic disparities at all four crucial “decision-making” stages of the criminal justice process: arrest, pretrial detention, charging and disposition, and sentencing. They found, for instance, that black defendants are 2.5 times more likely to be convicted than their counterparts from other races, and that black residents are up to six times more likely to be incarcerated.
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