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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Criminal Injustice System? New Studies Show Racial Disparity in Drug Arrests Grows
Posted by Justin Jeffre
Human Rights Watch reports black men are nearly twelve times as likely to be imprisoned for drug convictions as white men, even though whites commit more drug-related crimes. Black women are five times as likely to see prison time for drug crimes than white women. According to the Sentencing Project, since 1980 the rate of drug arrests for blacks has increased by 225 percent, compared to 75 percent for whites. (Last year studies found a race gap in traffic searches.)
The US has a long history of racist policing and unfair treatment under the law. Some people are now being freed from wrongful convictions because of DNA evidence, but we must ask ourselves how many have been set up and then murdered by the state? The US has more people in prison than any other nation on the planet and almost half are there due to the failed War on Drugs. When will we demand a change?
As Tip O’Neal once said, “All politics is local”. Perhaps it’s time to stop the injustices in Cincinnati.
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07 May 2008 at 02:09 pm | #
Not directly related, but this popped up in the news today:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24391957?GT1=43001?source=mom
08 May 2008 at 08:21 am | #
Well,judges and legislators are softer on mostly white meth users than inner city mostly black crack users. The view the former as “victims” and the latter as “criminals”.