Blacks and whites: similar drug use rates, different arrest rates

masbury

5-6-2008 5:52 PM

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border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/06/8744/">In 16 states, African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at rates between 10 and 42 times greater than the rate for whites, the report said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/06/8744/">Wisconsin, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia, Colorado, New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan were listed as the 10 states with the greatest racial disparities in prison admissions for drug offenders.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/06/8744/"><P>In a separate study, the Washington-based <A target="_blank" href="http://www.sentencingproject.org/">Sentencing Project</A> examined data from 43 of the largest American cities between 1980 and 2003.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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masbury says:

Most drug offenders are white, but most of the drug offenders sent to prison are black; “These trends come not as the result of higher rates of drug use among African Americans, but, instead, the decisions by local officials about where to pursue drug enforcement"