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Six: Jennifer Doleac on criminal justice reform

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Do You Have a Sense of How Common a Harassment of People Is by Police?

It's somewhat challenging to find policy effects, or to pick up strong, statisticly significant differences. The outcomes that you're able to detect effects on are usually much more low level stuff. And so i think there's a lot of good evidence that didiscretion over that kind of stuff is a place where racia bias can easily seep in. But i'd be willing to speculate here that in general, racial bias is a problem. It's really just a matter of of quantifying it.

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