Shelby County is giving up its half-hearted (and failed) attempts to end its pattern of treating black children more harshly than white children. After five and a half years of trying, “(t)he court will never — because it cannot — reach the statistics desired by the DOJ and the monitor,” wrote county attorney Kathryn Pascover in a June 29 … Continue reading Shelby County ‘will never’ meet goal to end discrimination at Juvenile Court