African American English often misunderstood in court

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At the end of 2017, federal and state prisons in the US held about 475,900 inmates who were black and 436,500 who were white, according to a survey by the Pew Research Centre think tank. Intussen, the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People reports that African Americans are incarcerated at more than five times the rate of whites. Statistics such as these bring into sharp focus the importance of a new study that finds that court reporters, whose transcriptions constitute official court records, fall significantly below their required levels of accuracy when recording speakers of African American English…Lees meer