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Racial disparities drop in criminal justice system after Prop. 47, study says [sfchronicle.com]

 

Significant racial disparities between African Americans and white people caught up in San Francisco’s criminal justice system have narrowed in the three-plus years since statewide Proposition 47 reduced some nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors, according to a study released Thursday.

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, one of the state’s biggest advocates for the proposition, commissioned the grant-funded report.

“I’m pleased we learned that the work we are doing is being done on an equal basis, but I recognize there is still disproportionality,” Gascón said. “Now we have seen the results, we can continue to evolve in what we are doing.”
[For more on this story by Evan Sernoffsky, go to http://www.sfchronicle.com/bay...justice-12523225.php]

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