Lifted from the comments, a technological feat:
- Traffic cameras in Chicago disproportionately ticket Black and Latino motorists.
"Readers are invited to spot the word that’s doing the heavy lifting. It appears 1o times in the article quoted above, excluding variations.
The red-light and speed cameras are, we’re told, “distributed roughly evenly among the city’s black, Latino and white neighbourhoods.” Despite which, “the ticketing rate for households in majority-Black ZIP codes” is “more than three times that of households in majority-white areas.” And so, explanations are searched out, including the width of a given road, the effect of passing vacant lots, and the geographical distribution of grocery stores...
Those presented as victims of injustice, of “racial inequity,”...
See also the words disparate, disparity and disparities, which occur no fewer than 22 times...Read all.
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