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Re:U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Ta... by chickenfries on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:44PM (#13286211)
This is an extremely reductive description of the drug war, and mass incarceration. You really can't talk about either without talking about race.
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Re:U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Ta... by kolbe on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:55PM (#13286325)
What do you mean?
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Re:U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Ta... by DanBC on Friday December 30, 2016 @06:25PM (#13288405)
White people and black people commit drug crime at roughly the same rate, but black people's drug crime attracts more policing and higher sentences.
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