“Research reveals gaping racial disparities in suburban arrests”

Danielle Taana Smith, professor of African American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, was quoted in the Albany Times-Union article “Research reveals gaping racial disparities in suburban arrests.” The research discussed in the article revealed that in a number of suburban towns in New York, police arrest Black people at a higher rate than their percentage of the population. Smith, who studies issues of social justice, says that previous policing reforms have not been sufficient. “Those voices have not been heard,” Smith says. “If they had been, the reforms we’re now hearing about would be more transformational.”