"THE MOST POISONOUS UNTRUTH being peddled in the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal is the claim that American justice is racist."

The idea that the criminal-justice system discriminates against blacks — and that this bias explains blacks’ disproportionate presence in custody — is a staple of civil-rights activism and of the academic Left. Every effort to prove it empirically, however, has come up short.

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