Racial Injustice Report: Addressing Racial Injustice in the Philadelphia Criminal Legal System

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Racial Injustice Report: Addressing Racial Injustice in the Philadelphia Criminal Legal System

Program Originally Presented Thursday, January 18, 2024

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics Lab (DATA Lab) released the “Racial Injustice Report: Disparities in Philadelphia’s Criminal Courts from 2015-2022” in June 2023 showing that stark racial disparities persist both within and outside the criminal legal system in the city of Philadelphia – known throughout the history of the nation as the birthplace of American democracy, a stronghold of abolitionist and anti-slavery organizing, and one of the most racially diverse but residentially segregated major cities in the country.

While it is generally understood by the public and press that Black people, brown people, and impoverished people are over-represented in the criminal legal system, the 2023 Racial Injustice Report analyzed data and outcomes that are only accessible to criminal legal system partners in order to provide the public with a transparent accounting of how systemic racism and economic inequality continue to present in the legal process from the initial police stop to incarceration.

This CLE program details the racial disparities at every level of the criminal legal system in the city of Philadelphia; give important insights around those racial disparities; give the historical reasons for the racial disparities; and provide concrete recommendations moving forward.

Featured Speaker:
Rev. Gregory Holston 
Senior Advisor on Policy and Advocacy 
Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office

  

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