Study: Prosecutors are a white boys club

By Frederick H. Lowe
Contributing Writer

Only 4% of prosecutors are personal loan without upfront fees Black men; 1% are Black women

(Special from NorthStar News Today) – When Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby stepped before the microphones last May and announced the indictment of six police officers in the death of cash loans in altoona pa Freddie Gray, Jr., 25, it was a rare event for two different reasons.

Prosecutors almost never indict police officers in the questionable deaths of Black men, armed or unarmed.

And Mosby is one of the few elected state’s attorneys nelnet loans in the nation, according to a report released by the Women Donors Network, a San Francisco-based community of progressive women philanthropists.

The Women Donors Network released a study titled “Justice for All,” which shows that 95 percent of elected cash pony loans prosecutors in the U.S. are white and 79 percent are white men. In 2014, there were 2,437 elected prosecutors. Some 60 percent of states don’t have an elected Black prosecutor, according to the study.

Only 1 percent of prosecutors, loans for legal fees bad credit like Mosby, are women of color. Only 4 percent of prosecutors, like Brooklyn, N.Y., District Attorney Ken Thompson and Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams, are men of color. Craig Watkins, who served eight years as Dallas District cash loans in fargo nd Attorney, was defeated last November by Susan Hawk, a Republican. Watkins was the first African American elected district attorney in Dallas. He was the first in the nation to launch a unit to investigate wrongful convictions by police and prosecutors.

payday loan shops in romford The report says, “This reveals a stark imbalance between those with enormous power in the criminal justice system and those they are elected to represent.”

This article originally published in the July 13, 2015 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.