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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by godelski on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:19PM (#23655188)

That's a good point. I did address the other levels here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655174 but it was harder to find more of a breakdown in the data.

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by iguy on Friday June 26, 2020 @03:02PM (#23655664)

I don't have a link handy but it's around 15% of the total prison population who are in for drug offences.

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by daenz on Friday June 26, 2020 @03:22PM (#23655902)

I do have a link handy: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by iguy on Friday June 26, 2020 @03:39PM (#23656088)

Thanks! So between 10 & 20% are in for drugs -- the lower figure if I try to exclude trafficking (although roughly, as they don't always break it down). And this means "in for nothing harder than drugs" since they are counting by the worst conviction.

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