Posts by Mary Steurer
Even though advocates of police reform have been sounding alarms about racial bias for decades, New Hampshire’s criminal justice system has stayed mostly unconvinced, says Manchester criminal defense attorney Donna Brown.
Senate bill would require police to collect, analyze and publish race, ethnicity and gender info for all police stops, citations and arrests
The state Department of Safety collects and publishes information from law enforcement agencies each year as part of a national crime data reporting program run by the FBI. The site, maintained by the Justice Information Bureau’s Uniform Crime Reporting unit, allows users to sort through the data, perform basic number-crunching and analysis, and create tables and charts, among other features.
Like schools everywhere, the Corrections Special School District, which serves New Hampshire’s state prison system, has been forced to modify classes to protect students and staff against the coronavirus. Even though incarceration is a far cry from the freedom of the outside world where an abundance of caution has altered school instruction, teachers inside the bubble of the prison walls only see their students for one class period a week at most.
While Paycheck Protection Program loan data suggests minority-owned businesses received funding at lower rates than their white counterparts, applicants were not required to report their race, making meaningful comparisons nearly impossible.