@som1
You post has nothing to do with the topic of this thread: :”Are Law abiding minorities affected by police racism?”
This white, Jewish lawyer has had black clients as long as I’ve been in practice. If the client has enough money to warrant, a trust, adoption, divorce, guardianship, child custody or any other part of our practice, then the only color that matters is GREEN…can they afford our fees? We are a for profit law firm. We do XXX hours of pro bono work per year, usually child custody or parental rights cases as assigned by our local Probate Judge. In a mostly white community, most clients are white.
We do not practice criminal law or personal injury or medical malpractice or landlord/tenant/housing cases.
Unlike NY, CT does not have District Attorneys. We have States Attorneys who prosecute cases. They are NOT elected (like a DA in NY) and don’t get to choose to take cases involving minority defendants. If a States attorney is assigned to a specific courthouse, the senior States Attorney and clerk assign most cases based on workload availability. The exception are major felonies which go to the most experienced trial attorneys in the office. Every few years the states attorneys are rotated geographically. So after spending three years in a city court with majority of minority defendants, they may find themselves in a rural court that almost never sees a minority defendant,
Also, different is that we do not have a Grand Jury system to issue indictments in CT. The police make their case to the states attorney, and he/she decides charges and whether to prosecute.