New York State’s ever-innovative lawmakers have forked over $10,000 of the public’s money to finance a study created and developed by ex-cons to determine whether state laws are racist. The program will be based at CUNY’s Medgar Evers College.

The editors of the New York Post have this to say on the subject:

Funny: We’d have thought their experience would be better put to use studying the “negative impact” on minority communities brought about by, say, crime.
But the center’s Web site highlights its interest in “creating a new justice paradigm from the perspective of those most impacted.” (Victims don’t count?)
It’s bad enough that this sort of thinking is still lauded in the halls of academe.
Do taxpayers really need to fund it?