Prof. Orfield Interviewed by the New York Times, Politico and Christian Science Monitor About Racial Segregation and Police Profiling

Professor Myron Orfield was interviewed by the New York Times, Politico Magazine and Christian Science Monitor about racial segregation and police profiling, and how the two are closely related. “You’re kind of looking at the greatest hits of segregation: Baltimore, Chicago, Minneapolis,” says Myron Orfield in the Christian Science Monitor, director of the University of Minnesota Law School’s Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, referring to the police killings of Freddie Gray, Laquan McDonald, and Castile. “They are places where the black and white realities are really different for people for both race and class.”

Specifically in the case of Philando Castile, and in response to questions of racial and ethnic bias in traffic enforcement, the New York Times cited the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity's 2003 study, which found that African-Americans and Latinos were more likely than whites to be stopped by the police for traffic violations.