A trial and everybody goes to trial and theres the good prosecutor and the and the defense attorney and they battle it out that is the way it works the way it works is the prosecutors stack up the charges on you and force you to plead guilty to a lesser charge to keep from doing life or double life or triple life people dont get trials what they get is a deal people suggest that anywhere between you know 3 or 10 and 15 percent of people behind bars could be innocent of the crimes for which they were charged Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer stanford law professor and the author of the new jim crow one of the most highly acclaimed studies americas criminal Justice System the reality is that thousands of people. Every year and the United States wind up pleading guilty to crimes they may not have committed because theyre the theyre railroaded by Police Officers who give them false information or corners confessions or because they are afraid of facing you know harsh mandatory mi
Get trials what they get is a deal people suggest that anywhere between you know 3 years 10 and 15 percent of people behind bars could be innocent of the crimes for which they were charged Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer stanford law professor and the author of the new jim crow one of the most highly acclaimed studies americas criminal Justice System the reality is that thousands of people. Every year and i had it states wind up pleading guilty to crimes they may not have committed because theyre the theyre railroaded by Police Officers who give them false information or horrors confessions or because theyre afraid of facing you know harsh mandatory minimum sentences and believe that you know the best chance is to just take a plea using average joe you dont know anything about. You know the president the politics in county jail you dont know anything so they put you there with these people in this is how they force you to take deals the u. S. Justice system just like any Ju
That title because i think it conveys the area that we really need to focus on uncovering the hidden prejudice shapes what we see, think and do. Welcome. Its great to be with you today. Host in the buck you talk about what i would say how we are conditioned, and i will use that word to respond to certain people in certain circumstances and what you referred to as implicit bias. You talked about how it can show up in any profession and spent 27 years as a Law Enforcement officer at the chief of police and im particularly interested in how it can show up in that profession, but you show how it can show up in any profession. So can you take a moment to talk about your background because i think that its so impressive and then if you explain to us how does an implicit bias differ from what we all know and in many instances have experienced . Im a professor from Stanford University and studied race and inequality and ive done a lot of work on racial bias in particular. A lot in the criminal
I am honored to be here today with doctor Jennifer Eberhardt who has done what i consider very fascinating work in the area of human behavior. Today we will talk about your latest book which i love the title because i think it really conveys the area that we need to focus on welcome. Its great to be here with you today. Its a pleasure to be here. You talk about what i would say, i use the words how we are conditioned. And to respond to certain people in be very to very as implicit bias and talk about how it shows up in any profession i spent 27 years as a Law Enforcement officer and chief of police and how it can show up in the profession but you show how implicit bias shows up in any protect on any professions or talk about your background and so explain what you mean by implicit bias and how is that different from what we all know and just plain old racism . Im a professor at Stanford University and i study race and the quality and i live in the criminal justice space and education a
And kindness, thats the word from the Colusa County board of supervisors that now gives residents the green light to return to precovid19 days. Really what the county is saying or what the board of supervisors are saying is that people are free to follow and interpret and follow the state guidelines as they deem fit. Reporter marcus croft with the county council says the numbers dont justify the reality here, with only five cases in the county, leaders say colusa should not have the same restrictions as larger counties with more cases. I think theres a lot of frustration that the county is being somewhat lumped into a onesizefitsall type of criteria for the state as a whole. Reporter so they unanimously voted on this resolution which will not enforce any corona vibrance environs virus that infringes on constitutional rights. They are asking Law Enforcement to follow this, too, but even county leaders themselves say with this order, they dont anticipate any actual immediate return to no