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This story was originally published by Wisconsin Watch. It includes details of an alleged sexual assault.

This article first appeared on Wisconsin Watch and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. A 21-year-old police recruit stood in the early morning winter darkness, unsure of what had just happened inside the Comfort Suites in Grand Chute, Wisconsin. After a night of heavy drinking s...

The department didn’t seek outside investigation for case involving its own employee, yet invoked “victim rights” laws to resist disclosing details of the incident involving two other police recruits

The department didn’t seek outside investigation for case involving its own employee, yet invoked “victim rights” laws to resist disclosing details of the incident involving two other police recruits

How does adding more minority and women judges affect theadministration of justice? Using a Tobit regression model andcontrolling for such factors as the sentence recommended by thePennsylvania sentencing guidelines showed that black judges handeddown longer incarceration sentences than white judges and that,although white judges did not tend to sentence black offenders anymore severely than they did white offenders, black judges did tendto sentence black offenders to longer prison terms than whitejudges gave to white offenders.