Racial Disparities

Analysis September 12

As the NYPD slows arrests for fare evasion, neighborhoods of color remain a target.

By Anna Flagg and Ashley Nerbovig

Commentary August 26

Black and brown men paid the price for supplying what the recreational drug market demanded: cocaine and weed.

By Juleyka Lantigua Williams

Feature April 29

Think the Manhattan DA goes easy on the rich? Take a look at how he prosecutes the poor.

By Tom Robbins

Commentary April 23

In retail, fear of black criminality regularly shows up in policies and practices across stores and sectors.

Aaron Ross Coleman

Life Inside February 15

"The only right you have, I told him, is to make it home alive."

By Meredith Walker as told to Alysia Santo

Commentary October 23, 2017

New research finds that prosecutors give white defendants better deals than black defendants.

Jenn Rolnick Borchetta and Alice Fontier

Analysis February 22, 2017

Was he sentenced to death “because he is black”?

By Maurice Chammah

News June 21, 2016

An attempt to find out confronts a frayed patchwork of data across the country.

By Vignesh Ramachandran and Katie Kramon

Analysis May 23, 2016

The Supreme Court considers what it takes to show that prosecutors, when they pick juries, are discriminating against minorities.

By Maurice Chammah

Analysis March 9, 2016

A new report looks at recidivism among inmates released from federal prisons.

By Bill Keller