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by vegetablepotpie 1709 days ago
We are assuming the evidence exists, the article says the county and state have both discontinued reporting of juvenile detention statistics.

Sure, the only evidence we have of racial targeting is anecdotal, but if we use a Bayesian approach, the fact that the party that is conducting the profiling shuts off the data that would disprove that notion, it gives us a very strong prior.