A Dog Bites Man Story

In The New Yorker, Jack Hitt takes another look at the Justice Department’s report on Ferguson and wonders what we can learn from one particular stat: During the period covered in the report, police dogs in Ferguson never once attacked a white suspect. “There is one social ill that all detection dogs, even the poorly trained ones, reveal with searing accuracy: the hidden racial prejudices of the police officers who deploy them.”

Copied to Clipboard