The impact of Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot’s policy to refuse low-level drug cases is the topic of research by the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at Southern Methodist University.
Creuzot began the policy when he took office in 2019.
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WATCH HEREThe inquiry will come in several reports, the first of which covers the racial characteristics of drug defendants in 6 large cities in Dallas County in 2018, the year before Creuzot took office.
Future reports will compare subsequent years in those communities.
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SIGN UP The study is called “The ABCs of Racial Disparity.”
A link to the initial report is here.
