Black service members are significantly more likely to face military punishment than their white colleagues, according to a new report that alleges rampant racial bias in the military.
The non-profit advocacy group Protect Our
Defenders sifted through almost a decade’s worth of government data
obtained via Freedom of Information Act looking for clear disparities in
the judicial treatment of white and black military personnel.
"The data shows that, for every year reported
and across all service branches, black service members were
substantially more likely than white service members to face military
justice or disciplinary action, and these disparities failed to improve
or even increased in recent years," the report stated.
"Depending on the service and type of
disciplinary or justice action, black service members were at least 1.29
times and as much as 2.61 times more likely than white service members
to have an action taken against them in an average year," according to
the report.
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