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The Yolo District Attorney noticed a disproportionately large number of Black defendants being referred to the office by law enforcement.
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The Yolo District Attorney noticed a disproportionately large number of Black defendants being referred to the office by law enforcement.
To mitigate downstream impact, the D.A. opened up eligibility for diversion (which allows defendants to be diverted out of the system and into community programming); he did this by revising a policy that automatically disqualified from the program defendants with a criminal history. He also started a race-blind charging practice.
Diversions of Black defendants increased 15.9 percentage points in one year and case declinations began to trend up for Black defendants.