Hmm...

It's Chambers Week (meaning no court, and nothing to do). Except for me :) I was put in charge of a sociology project for the solicitor's office: I am taking all of the 1993 delinquents, documenting their age, race, sex, age of first appearance, and all of the charges they have acquired over the years. After I put that into the database, I must then see if there is a trend: Do we dismiss more female cases? Do we try more blacks? Is truancy the most common first offense?

Now lets be real here, we could conjecture what the realistic answers are going to be. But, in the past week, I have only seen 4 black people in the courtroom, out of the 50 or so I have seen. It's funny, that same dichotomy pops up all the time. You stick to the stereotype, but then see that it is different in reality. So, I leave it up to you? What do you think it would really be? I'm troubled because I feel like we are so stuck in the past down here, I mean we have these databases that they think are the greatest things that have happened to technology, when it's probably what we used in the 90s, but I can't say that there will be an obvious trend. But, I could be wrong.

"Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection."
                 - Martin Luther King, Jr.