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Scores for predicting disease risk based on genetics are on average almost five times less accurate for people of African ancestry, two times less accurate for East Asians, and 1.6 times less accurate for Hispanic or Latino Americans, compared to people of European descent, a paper published Friday in Nature Genetics has found. 
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Efforts to relieve the human and financial toll of prison overcrowding often rely on predictive tools that estimate how likely an inmate is to reoffend based on such risk factors as criminal history, education or employment problems and substance abuse.
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A study has found people were more likely to mistake a mobile phone for a gun when it was associated with a photo of a black person and shown during a heartbeat
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Owing to Facebook’s new live stream feature, most of the world has seen the video depicting the moments after Philando Castile, a 32-year-old cafeteria manager, was shot and ultimately killed by a police officer. The shooting occurred not even 48 hours after another black male was shot and killed by a cop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In both cases, the victims had concealed handguns. And in both cases, the video footage appears to indicate that the individuals who were shot actually presented no legitimate threat to the officers.
What it comes down to is a difference in perception. In the subconscious minds of many police officers, an armed white man is just a citizen exercising a constitutional right, while a black man carrying a gun is an imminent danger.
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