The problem with equality

"That conception of equity offers a useful complement to the legal conception of procedural equality. In a way, procedural equality has become a victim of its own success. So few police agencies admit to explicit racial profiling, and so many seem sincerely to believe that their officers no longer engage in that practice, that calls for colorblindness may have reached a point of diminishing returns. But today, the most pervasive inequities in policing may take a less familiar form. There is a danger that continued scholarly emphasis on procedural equality could unintentionally obscure those other inequities from view. Victory for colorblindness can suggest that inequality has been eliminated when in truth only one form of it has been"

http://fordschool.umich.edu/research/papers/PDFfiles/02-006.pd

Policing Equity - "The Science of Justice: Race, Arrests, and Police Use of Force"

https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research/featured/the-science-of-justice-race-arrests-and-police-use-of-force, direct pdf