Race, Potholes and GIS

More GIS-related news keeps coming out of Milwaukee...

Over the past week or so, their has been controversy regarding whether or not there is a timeliness bias on fixing potholes in Milwaukee's minority communities. The issue was brought to light by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Most likely ESRI is the 'mapping software' that is used for the analysis. For a description of the analysis look here and here.