Task force on racial inequity in the justice system has community members calling for action


The recent task force report shows black kids in Charlottesville enter the juvenile justice system at much higher rates than their white peers, despite the fact that they’re a racial minority in the city. Graph taken from the Charlottesville Task Force Report on Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System, 2014.

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