For years, the Pentagon sits on racial discrimination survey data
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Last Updated: Dec 18, 2020, 05:50 PM IST
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However, the Defense Department denied repeated requests from Reuters to release the 2017 survey data, including through a Freedom of Information Act request. It has also not released a separate report about the 2017 survey data or clearly explained why the data has been withheld for so long.
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WASHINGTON: Army Sergeant Major Das Chara Champ couldn t have known that the answer to her question about racial discrimination survey data was sitting in an office somewhere in the vast Defense Department bureaucracy.
Pentagon has been sitting on US Army racial discrimination data for years
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For Years, the Pentagon Sits on Racial Discrimination Survey Data
The most recent publicly available survey showed that some 16% of minorities in the active-duty force experienced harassment, discrimination or both because of their race or ethnicity.
The Pentagon in Washington, US, is seen from aboard Air Force One, March 29, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Yuri Gripas/File Photo
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Washington: Army Sergeant Major Das’Chara Champ couldn’t have known that the answer to her question about racial discrimination survey data was sitting in an office somewhere in the vast Defense Department bureaucracy.
Few people do.
“Has there been any kind of survey done on the perceived level of racism or racial discrimination in the Army,” Champ, who is Black, asked in a video played at a Pentagon town hall on September 24.