Re:Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration?
by cottonseed on Friday October 23, 2015 @11:33AM
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> I believe that the law enforcement strategy is a concentration on drug dealers
I don't think that's right [0]:
"[M]arijuana arrests now account for over half of all drug arrests in the United States. Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simply having marijuana."
So more than 44% of all drug arrests between 2001-2010 were for possession. It may be that blacks arrested for possession carried much more than whites because they were dealing and whites were just using. I haven't been able to find any numbers on that.
I don't think that's right [0]:
"[M]arijuana arrests now account for over half of all drug arrests in the United States. Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simply having marijuana."
So more than 44% of all drug arrests between 2001-2010 were for possession. It may be that blacks arrested for possession carried much more than whites because they were dealing and whites were just using. I haven't been able to find any numbers on that.
[0] https://www.aclu.org/gallery/marijuana-arrests-numbers