Hacker News with Generative AI: Racial Bias

Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets (arstechnica.com)
It's no secret that "driving while black" is a real phenomenon. Study after study has shown that minority drivers are ticketed at a higher rate, and data from speed cameras suggests that it's not because they commit traffic violations more frequently. But this leaves open the question of why. Bias is an obvious answer, but it's hard to eliminate an alternative explanation: Minority groups may engage in more unsafe driving, and the police are trying to deter that.
Google agrees to pay $28M in racial bias lawsuit (bbc.co.uk)
Google has agreed to pay $28m (£21.5m) to settle a lawsuit that claimed white and Asian employees were given better pay and career opportunities than workers from other ethnic backgrounds, a law firm representing claimants says.
Ahmed Mohamed Clock Incident (wikipedia.org)
On September 14, 2015, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, for bringing a disassembled digital clock to school.
Police stop more Black drivers, while speed cameras issue unbiased tickets (theconversation.com)
Traffic stops by Chicago police have more than doubled over the past nine years in what the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights group, is calling the “new stop-and-frisk.”
When Facial Recognition Helps Police Target Black Faces (thewalrus.ca)