A study released Tuesday by the Women Donors Network‘s Reflective Democracy Campaign draws a poor conclusion when it comes to diversity among American prosecutors.
According to the findings, an estimated 95 percent of local and elected state prosecutors in 2014 were white. And the results don’t fare very well for women, either: 79 percent of the prosecutors were male. Furthermore, white women accounted for 16 percent of the total, followed by 4 percent for minority men and a mere 1 percent for minority women. And in 14 states, all of the prosecutors are white. These numbers are disproportionate to the general population, which is only 31 percent white male.
A study by the American Bar Association does not show much improvement when it comes to lawyers: in 2010 88.1% of lawyers were white, and in 2005 70% were male.
