(June 26, 2020 at 9:53 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: There's a particularly telling statistic: there's no significant difference between rates of illegal drug use between blacks and whites, but blacks are about 50% of the population incarcerated for drugs while only representing 12% of the general population. I wonder how they could get the impression that to the justice system, white lives matter more than theirs?
Users are not the ones going to prison (as much) these days.
It's more traffickers..
What do statistics say about the racial makeup of those selling drugs? As many of those dealing in drugs are gang affiliated - you might expect to see more blacks and latinos incarcerated for drug offenses.
Of course there are white gangs as well - and no surprise you see a lot of patch holding bikers in prisons as well.
If you have any stats for that I would be interested in looking at them...
