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Search results for "racial discrimination" ...
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Houston Texas Bus Safety
This story looks at two bus crashes in Texas to determine how companies are regulated. It also looks at how Houston operators who cater to Hispanic, working-class passengers are allowed to operate, some illegally, despite poor safety records and questionable licensing.
Tags: buses; public safety; driving records; racial discrimination; bus crashes; chameleon carrier; driving offenses;
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What Really Happened at Fire Station 5?
"These stories followed a year in the life of the Los Angeles Fire Department as it fought claims of racial, gender and workplace discrimination. The stories also centered on teh City Attorney's Office and how it handlede the bulk of lawsuits and claims -- amidst public outrage."
Tags: fire department; city government; harrassment; courts; discrimination
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Chicago Matters: Money matters
These three series; "Chasing the Dream," Paycheck to Paycheck," and "Paper Bag Test," examined how money and financial matters affects different individuals and families around Chicago. "Chasing the Dream" revealed that whites earning less than $30,000 a year had a better chance of getting home loans than blacks earning more than $90,000 a year."Paycheck to Paycheck" revealed that thousands of families don't earn what they need just to meet their basic expenses. "Paper Bag Test" showed that the major retailers have three times the number of outlets in the predominantly white areas of Chicago than in the predominantly black areas.
Tags: personal finance; home loans; mortgages; poverty level; racial discrimination; racism; neighborhood businesses
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DWP Files
This series of stories on LA's Department of Water and Power, the nations' largest municipal utility, follows up on Anderson's report last year about racial discrimination at the utility company. He reports on price gouging by suppliers; dysfunctional management and extortion by the unions; whistleblowers being fired; shoddy workmanship and cost overruns.
Tags: City government; mismanagement; power supply; electricity; unions; corruption; Los Angeles politics
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Striking Differences
This team of reporters spent two years gathering and analyzing jury data from felony court trials to see if racial discrimination still played a key role in jury selection. The investigation found that prosecutors tend to reject African-American jurors, while defense attorneys tended to retain them. Consequently, the number of African-Americans serving on juries in Dallas more or less mirrored the breakdown of the population.
Tags: juries; jurors; courts; law; jury selection; racial discrimination; racism; racial profiling; murder trials; felony conviction; criminal courts
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Racial Profiling Problems
San Antonio Police Department paid $54,000 to analyze SAPD's racial profiling data. SAPD reported that the numbers is one of the best in the country. But WOAI found that SAPD listed motorists the wrong race. Out of 154,000 tickets, 26 percent of them were listed under the wrong race.It was also revealed that the same motorist showed up dozens of times in the records when they should have only be counted once.
Tags: racial profiling; police; discrimination; motorists; minority; traffic tickets
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Out of the Mainstream: Black students likelier to be put in special ed than whites, data show
This article shows how, both nationally and in Dallas, minority students are more likely than white students to end up in Special Education classes. "Many teachers and principals say special education helps disadvantaged children catch up with their peers. But some parents and civil rights leaders say minority children get separated from the mainstream and often do not return." This articles examines the numbers and then looks at possible reasons for the discrepancy.
Tags: education; discrimination; racial discrimination; prejudice
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Young and In Trouble: Different Paths for Punishment (part 1) and The Challenge of Rehabilitation (part 2)
This investigation exposed "a huge racial imbalance between the number of white and black youths sent to adult prison in the Bay area, statewide and nationally." The review focused on teens ages 13-17 sentenced to adult prison. Most of the youths sent to adult prison were black; white juvenile delinquents were more likely to be sentenced to house arrest or be put on probation. These articles look at possible hidden causes for the disparity, like the fact that police spend more time in black neighborhoods so are more likely to catch black criminals than white ones. The article also explores the idea that the records don't reflect racism; rather, the situation shows how poor delinquents are more likely to end up in adult prison. The article discusses how being in adult prison affects kids differently than being in a youth-oriented rehabilitation program.
Tags: prison; jail; incarceration; juvenile delinquents; teen court; YES; racial discrimination
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Magic Mountain
Six Flags is one of the largest regional park company and this investigation looks at how some of the guards at these amusement parks are trained to target African-Americans and Latino customers. It also reveals that a person visiting the amusement park in Southern California was an Olympic gold winner who was humiliated at the theme park.
Tags: racial profiling; discrimination; African- American; Mexicans; Latino; Olympics; Southern California; six flags; amusement parks; racial profiling by security
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Disparities in CHP Searches
A San Francisco Chronicle analysis of more than 3.3 million statewide California Highway Patrol traffic stops showed that "Latinos and blacks pulled over by the CHP are far more likely to be searched than white drivers."
Tags: California Highway Patrol; vehicle searches; racial profiling; discrimination; police; traffic stops