Two criminal justice professors and crime data researchers are disputing the methodology used in analyzing the data in the U.S. Department of Justice’s report that triggered a federal consent decree for the Minneapolis Police Department last month.
In a City Journal article, Jukka Savolainen, a former director of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data and a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Wayne State University; and John Paul Wright, a professor at the University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice argued the DOJ investigators used broad demographics and incomplete analysis to conclude the Minneapolis PD is racist in its policing.
