He also cited five practices as vestiges of segregation: tracking of students by ability, unequal disciplinary practices, disproportionate special-education referrals for blacks, inadequate provision of student services, and inadequate instruction for students with limited English skills.
In its attack on non-partisan selection systems, the WSJ concludes that although the system is intended to take politics out of the selection of judges, "the plan has in practice handed disproportionate influence over the judiciary to lawyers and bar associations".
They are the wealthy, elite, lobbyists, special interests, and selected elected representatives and others who exercise a disproportionate influence over public policy and practices.
The high numbers of marijuana arrests under the Bloomberg administration have been linked by critics to the police's stop-and-frisk practices and disproportionate enforcement against blacks and Hispanics.
The report stated that the "conscientious application of data" could help improve policing nationwide, but added that "we found little evidence that today's systems live up to their claims, and significant reason to fear that they may reinforce disproportionate and discriminatory policing practices".
Cultural imperialism is a process of disproportionate influence over social practices and ideologies by one sociopolitical group over a politically weaker and (frequently) less-wealthy group.
(2) In practice it gives disproportionate power to Senators from less populous states; in the current Senate, the 40 Republican Senators (all of whom now seem likely to vote in favor of a filibuster) represent just 35percentt of the American population.
Small-state senators still exercise disproportionate power.
Today, Latino and black communities are still subject to wildly disproportionate drug enforcement and sentencing practices.
