How well do court recorders transcribe AAVE?

A study in Philadelphia has shown that the speech of AAVE speakers is very often mistranscribed in court. For example, “The cop partner been got transferred”, where “been” indicates an event in the distant past, was transcribed “The cop partner, Ben, got transferred”.

http://www.philly.com/news/court-reporter-stenographer-african-american-english-aave-philly-transcript-study-20190122.html?fbclid=IwAR1YQFemJsyp_2gxHRK1Jok5Cf2VPrzKtN3wkP9ophsAJg_0V4u0OW1et7w

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