This I find a striking precedent to set:"...in Wisconsin's prisons, nearly half of inmates are African-American, yet Blacks represent just 6 percent of Wisconsin’s population (emphasis O'Coileain). Racial disparities permeate the entire criminal justice continuum, in the number of arrests, cases charged, sentences and probation and parole revocations. In some offense categories, like drug arrests and minor offenses, the disparity is more pronounced, while in others, like sentences for serious offenses, the disparity is reduced."
The State of Wisconsin's Response?
Governor Jim Doyle established the Commission on Reducing Racial Disparities in the Wisconsin Justice System to study and recommend solutions for racial disparities in each step of the criminal justice continuum."
Question: Likelihood of anyone applying that same policy to the following "Racial Disparity?"
All 5 members of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank are "[fill in the blank]," "all things being equal" would mean there is a 1 in 326,128 chance of that happening...
Ben Bernanke, Chairman
Donald Kohn, Vice-Chairman
Kevin Warsh
Randall Kroszner
Elizabeth A. Duke
Daniel Tarullo
Answer: let me venture to say, "Zero to none."
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