Research your local district or state attorney’s office to see if there is any demographic information about the number of cases presented to the office and the number of cases in which the office charged someone (e.g., 1,000 cases accusing women of a crime were presented; charges were filed in 100 of those cases).
Write a minimum 1,050-word paper in which you:
Explain the difficulties in determining if bias occurs when the prosecutor determines whether someone will be charged. Support this with the evidence from your research.
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