by David Sommerstein
An urban-versus-rural battle is brewing over the census because prison inmates are counted as residents of the prisons where they are locked up. That inflates the population of the mostly white, rural towns that have the prisons.
Higher population means more political representation — and often more money for schools, road crews and other services. Activists say the counting unfairly shifts political and economic power away from the poor city neighborhoods most inmates came from....
& follow-up to this post:
glad to see that the NYPD has improved not one bit under Bloomberg
links to the original reports from the Center for Constitutional Rights
CCR's Report on Racial Disparity in NYPD Stops-and-Frisks(pdf)
CCR's NYPD Data Used in Report (MS Excel spreadsheet)
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