Racial auditors and the Fourth Amendment: data with the power to inspire political action.(The Political Geography of Race Data in the Criminal Justice System)

Law and Contemporary Problems, June, 2003 by Taslitz, Andrew E.

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INTRODUCTION

In the winter of 2002, the Enron scandal dominated the mass media. (1) Enron, a Houston-based energy giant and purportedly the seventh-largest company in America, was, it turned out, more like Tom Thumb than the Jolly Green Giant. (2) Much of the media commentary bemoaning Enron's fall into bankruptcy, however, attacked not Enron but its auditor, Arthur Andersen. (3) The public auditor's job is to collect and verify information, disseminating it to two audiences: corporate managers, who can act on sound data to improve a company's performance, and the stock-purchasing public, who have confidence that audited financial statements are accurate and can therefore serve as reliable guides in stock-purchase decisions. (4) Auditors may also...

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