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Criminal Justice Professional Interest Council

John F. Kennedy School of Government

Student Research

  • In recent years, the issue of racial disparity at various stages of the criminal justice process has received an increasing amount of public attention. It is important to understand from the outset that this report is not about looking for racial bias, racial profiling, or intentional discrimination within the Seattle Police Department. Instead, this report seeks to understand how the priorities, constraints, strategies, and tactics of local drug enforcement decisions might be related to racially disparate outcomes.